Quotes About Opportunity

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

My first professional acting job was on 'Boss'. My first acting job was basically my first acting class. I had to show up on set prepared and knowing my lines. Also, I got a chance to work with a living legend, Kelsey Grammar - that gave me hands on experience.

You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.

It's easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job.

The thing is you never know what you can do until you try it. Even if you try, you still may fail, but that's when you have to go and prepare because if you're not prepared, you're preparing to fail.

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

Suddenly I had a call one day saying they'd like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. 'He is preparing a film called 'Breathless.' Jean would like to see you.' I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn't see the eyes.

You are responsible for your own career, if you ain't preparing right, you are not going to get picked.

I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.

The ability to forget is a prerequisite for an entrepreneur.

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every child.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

I just feel like being on the floor for more minutes allows me to give my presence.

An internship with Pep Guardiola would be a huge present.

We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

If people have got an amazing opportunity such as on 'Dragons' Den' and they mess it up by being lazy with their presentation it does make me a bit cross.

No matter the amount of negativity you're presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.

I loved to sing my whole life, but it was never really - I don't even know how to say it. It was never presented to me as an actual career option.

My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.

I try to make the most of the opportunities I am presented with.