Quotes About Opportunity

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

The future we face in the Pacific may be dangerous, but I suspect it will be anything but dull.

In life you gotta take chances the hell with shoulda, woulda, and coulda you never know what the out come will be. It may be a life full of success...

Come to the edge, he said. We are afraid, they said. Come to the edge, he said. They came to the edge, He pushed them and they flew. Come to the edge, Life said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, Life said. They came. It pushed them... And they flew.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.

Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt...

Opportunity makes thieves." What

error. It was Saturday evening, February 25, 2006, and I had twenty-four hours

Kairos is the inspiration for the Cretan chestnut "Opportunity makes thieves." What matters is the timing, not the target—seize any opportunity, even if it's not the one you planned.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Failure and success are fraternal twins