Quotes About Opportunity

My motivation for helping is that I come from a culture that isn't given a lot of opportunity.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

When the opposition has the ball you don't want to chase. You want to stay fresh for when the opportunity comes to score.

I share the concerns around the world about everything from a lack of opportunity to groups of people being oppressed.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.

Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.

Optics can drive an economy.

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

The '60s were a time of great optimism and hope. There was a buzz - everybody could be successful.