Opportunity Quotes - Page 27

• For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

  Steve Aoki

  Artist, Giving, Records

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• In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

  Colin Angle

  People, Robots, Cost

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Fun, Long, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

  Kurt Angle

  Running, Character, My Best Friend

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• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Blue, Stories, Weight

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• To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

  Grant Achatz

  Coffee, Espresso, Kitchen

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• War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Children, Real, War

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Women, Calling

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Disappointment

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, People

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Class

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, White Man, Average

  Interview with Ralph McGill, as quoted in "The Atlantic Monthly", November 1965.

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Giving, Fool, Nobel

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• The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  War, Feminist, Movement

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• If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

  Charles William Eliot

  Reading, Thinking, America

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• Out of adversity comes opportunity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Adversity

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• The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Purpose, Doe

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• Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Blessing, Treasure

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Important, Use

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Race, Role Models, Waiting

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  New Year, Jesus, Winning

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Wine, Clothes

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• Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

  John Kador

  Apology, Broken, Has Beens

  John Kador (2010). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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