Quotes About Opportunities

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.

I think India's growth itself will give opportunities for Indian banks to become substantially bigger.

I did not leave television to go to the movies. In television, they banned me.

For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

I could never be grateful enough to the Doobies for the opportunities the organization gave me over the years.

Step by step I'm getting my opportunities and what's important for me is to be prepared to show my best whenever possible.

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

The accrued guilt and clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the festering familial sores, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose, and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand. At such moments something resembling happiness

I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values —or betray them —lies in the food we put on our plates.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

There are always multiple paths to the same end, and the same starting point can be a path to many different ends. We should be careful to avoid getting too attached to a particular route or even a particular destination. There isn't one definition of success or one track to happiness.

You must value the possibilities that wealth can offer you more than the pleasures that money can buy you.

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passionate about my music career, you have to be extremely passionate when you have opportunities like films and real money actually coming to you compared to with music.

I definitely have not had a linear path. I have had more of a path where I've meandered with a sense of purpose. Really, what that means is it's about being true to your convictions and your passions but also leaving yourself open to opportunities when they come along.