Quotes About Opportunity

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

Any time the Chicks want to play, that takes precedence, because we can make a lot of money.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

Let's face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn't look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that's pretty precious to me.

There's precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management - and that's especially true in England.

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

Our kids should be leaving school ready for success, not paying for the misconduct of predatory institutions.

It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I've been fortunate.

Life is full of things that you can't predict.

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.

But that's the great thing about MMA, you know, you can never predict what's going to happen.

You can't predict anything in T20s.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

Life is anything but predictable.

There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity.

Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

I've never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That's why, when people say, 'Well what are roles you're dying to play?' I say, I don't even have such a list, because everything that's ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.