Quotes About Opportunity

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

YOLO—you only live once.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whether they get them is up to us.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

and the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more...

if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early

Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me. I

Interestingly, single women were prominent amongst rentiers, investors and money lenders, suggesting that wealthier women had long found trade an unappetizing option. 11

Time and tide waits for none

the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Kita akan sanggup mengubah suatu kebudayaan dengan cara memberikan para perempuan anak bangsa alat yang tepat untuk tumbuh terdidik agar mereka dapat menolong diri sendiri. (Amartya Sen)

Effective elementary education has in practice ceased to be free in substantial parts of the country, which of course is a violation of a basic right.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

This is the film I could finally get cast in.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.