Opportunity Quotes - Page 36

• As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, People, Actors

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

  Raymond Buckland

  Running, Imagination, Fiction

  Source: paganpages.org

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• I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.

  Li Cunxin

  Artist, Two, Giving

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Ideas, Missing

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, People, Giving

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• Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Today, Building

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• When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.

  Anne Waldman

  Years, Able, Sides

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

  Anne Waldman

  Strong, Blessed, Challenges

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

  Jay Ellis

  Smart, Heart, Long

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• You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.

  Jay Ellis

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

  DeMarcus Ware

  Kids, Needs, Looks

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• I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

  J Tillman

  Albums, Use, Able

  Source: www.nyctaper.com

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• I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

  Henry Cejudo

  World, Want, Best Opportunity

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• I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.

  Joel Plaskett

  Editing, People, Trying

  Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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• As a boy I dreamed that I could go on a boat with Jean Cousteau. But I was never given the opportunity. I am now giving that opportunity to young people around the world who would like to experience the beauty of nature.

  Mike Horn

  Boys, People, Giving

  Source: nicksmithphoto.wordpress.com

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• Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Talking, Ice

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Powerful, Moving

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because that's their only voice. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I pay attention to opportunities coming my way, gays and lesbians telling me what I've done for them, organizations in my community that always want to work with me.

  Jackie Warner

  Gay, Organization, Voice

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.

  Antony Hegarty

  Lonely, Thinking, Voice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Team, People

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

  Eric Bell

  America, Enhancement, Improvement

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  Angela Davis

  Responsibility, Thinking, Doors

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I learned to never say never and never say no, so I decided to go pro. I knew I'd have an opportunity to be a defensive player in the NFL.

  Darius Philon

  Player, Nfl, Never Say Never

  Source: www.chargers.com

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