Opportunity Quotes - Page 37

• Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

  Heather Mitts

  Team, Challenges, Honor

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

  Heather Mitts

  Soccer, Magazines, Publicity

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

  Ken Yeang

  Air, Space, Friendly

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

  Viola Davis

  Badass, Color, Actresses

  "The 10 Best Emmy Moments for Women Last Night" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 21, 2015.

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Thinking, White

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

  Viola Davis

  Play, Ifs

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Home

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• I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Missing

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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• Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

  Tim DeChristopher

  People, Addiction, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

  Matthew Carter

  Trying, Pieces, Shells

  Matthew Carter (2009). “Liquid Soul”, p.7, Matthew Carter

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• Hiphop allows you to get your love ones, your family members up out of the hood and that sh-t sounds cliché, but it's true. So when I think of hiphop, I just think of all the opportunity it's provided, of all the places it's taking me.

  Jon Connor

  Thinking, Sound, Members

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• There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, Giving, Closets

  "Introducing Merry Jane, Snoop Dogg's marijuana lifestyle site". www.cbc.ca. September 23, 2015.

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• Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, War, Home

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Islands

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?

  Bill Taylor

  Business, Winning, Games

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• Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, Color, Roles

  "Viola Davis Becomes the First African-American to Win Emmy for Best Actress in Drama" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. September 21, 2015.

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• It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

  Viola Davis

  Awards, Important, Would Be

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Years, People, Solitude

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• I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!

  Arlene Dickinson

  Mind, Sorrow, Matter

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs. Protecting human rights of every man, woman and child is fundamental. Kids cannot protect themselves. It's up to us to ensure they have what they need to be all they can possibly be.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Encouragement, Children, Kids

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.

  Scott Cohen

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Growing Up, Math, Iran

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I hope to inspire everyone - especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men - to not give up their dreams and to pursue them.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Girl, Country, Dream

  "Interview with Anousheh Ansari, the First Female Space Tourist". Interview with Sara Goudarzi, www.space.com. September 15, 2006.

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• I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Technology, Entrepreneur, Explorers

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Jobs, Thinking, Technology

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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