Quotes About Opportunity

I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.

The one thing you can't buy, find, or create is time.

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

The one thing that concerts have done for me is given me the opportunity to get back to sort of do songs that I want to do. It's about enjoying yourself.

The one thing you realize if you're going to be successful - no matter where you grew up, no matter what your educational level is - A. You can succeed, but B. The only way you're going to succeed is by outworking everyone else.

The one thing about college basketball is you don't have to have the best player to win.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

The one thing in most communities, the staple is the basketball court. And when that looks good, I think the community feels good about itself, knowing that people care and have an opportunity to not only play there, but it's also a social meeting place.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

I've done all the coaching badges at St George's and the one thing I find very difficult, let alone get a job, is to even get an interview.

When one was looking at getting out of media, I took a fair amount of time to figure out what I want to do for the next 20 years... the one thing I am very passionate about is entrepreneurship in this country.

My fights all have great meaning to me because they give me the chance to put myself in a position I probably wouldn't have been in before without all of this. The one thing I won't lack in this business is motivation.

The one thing you dont want to do is deny young boys and girls, people that want to play the game and support the game, the opportunity to do so because of limited spots.

I did makeup for a plus-size model a month after I officially quit acting. It was just fate. The photographer was like, 'Have you ever thought of modeling?' It may have been the one thing I never thought was possible for me.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Money will come, and opportunities will come, but the only thing we don't get back is time.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.