Quotes About Opportunity

With great kindness and love, out of your own experience of what's possible, you give them the wisdom that somebody else probably gave you the day before when you were miserable. You encourage them not to buy into their self-pity but to realize that it's an opportunity to grow, and that everybody goes through this experience. In other words, the sangha are people committed to helping one another to take off their armor, by not encouraging their weakness

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.