Opportunity Quotes - page 19

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. (Clive Davis)
I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity. View quote
Colleen Haskell
We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help. View quote
Connie Sellecca
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it. View quote
Carrot Top
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. View quote
Cary Elwes
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity. View quote
David Bonderman
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. View quote
David Miliband
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. View quote
David Millar
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent. View quote
David Rockwell
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling. View quote
Dean Stockwell
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives. (Debbie Meyer)
With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. View quote
Deborah Cox
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. View quote
Dennis Eckersley
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. View quote
Derek Jacobi
A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on. View quote
Dexter Gordon
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. View quote
Dick Wolf
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up. View quote
Dominic West
This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here. View quote
Donald Evans
A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting. (Dan Gilroy)
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. View quote
Dorothy Kilgallen
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. View quote
Douglas Sirk
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps. View quote
Duane G. Carey
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. View quote
Daniel Nathans