Quotes About Opportunity

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.

I'm not going to score if I'm out near the corner flag.

I would love to work with Charlotte Flair.

I've got a bad back from being in the business for more than 20 years, but if I did have that opportunity, I'd love to have one more go-around with Flair.

I got to work with Ric Flair. I got to work with John Cena when he was just coming into his own. I got to work with Santino when that character was just started.

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

Sometimes you do films that work really well and sometimes you do a film and you fall flat on your face. Sometimes things work, sometimes things don't work, you never know. I don't think there is any explanation to something like that.

Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.

Director Baz Luhrmann flew me to New York to read for 'Moulin Rouge!' Maybe I was a little blase about it.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

They were looking for boys who could speak with an English accent for the movie 'Lord of the Flies.' I had been abroad enough so I knew that accent.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

You only get so many flight hours. It's not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

For all the amazing things we've got to do, there's always the flip side of life kind of passed us by in other ways.

At the end of the day, what you're able to work on is what comes by you, what sort of floats by you.

It is not often that one of the world's best entrepreneurs rings you up and says 'I've got this business we are about to float off as an independent company and we'd like you to be chief executive.'

I never thought I'd be playing 60 games a season for City, I knew I would be playing half of that if I was lucky. I knew at a club with that much power and resources there would always be a flood of players into the team.