Quotes About Opportunity

Young people will always manage to achieve the impossible–whether that is on the football field or inside a company or other big organisation. If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

Games–like life–are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.

Los mejores jefes también se enorgullecen de que los empleados que hayan trabajado bien y quieran irse, lo hagan a puestos mejores y más importantes.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone.

I only came to give you a second chance.

There's just so much to live for.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

You can write anything you want on the internet, and it has the potential to become famous

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else

There were at least 32 attacks by suffragettes on art on public display between 14 January 1913 and 17 July 1914.[6] There is dispute about whether or not the targets of attacks were all specifically chosen for their symbolic value or whether some were random. Whilst attacks on representations of beautiful mythological women seem to be planned defacements of conventional images of femininity,[7] others seem haphazard choices directed by impulse and opportunity.

This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful.

Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that I got one, but what I find so cool about 'Hunger Games' is that the real star is the story itself.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

The feeling that everyone feels, of a life not lived.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

great things may come from moments of nothingness.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.