Opportunity Quotes - Page 38

• Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Thinking, Creating, Careers

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.

  Hiromi

  Joy, Able, World

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• Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!

  Hiromi

  Artist, Play, Two

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• Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Teaching, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Europe, Innovation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Girl, Art, Writing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.

  Brooke Ellison

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

  Source: www.americanprogress.org

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• [In management] you're getting an opportunity to meet and speak with the GMs, assistant GMs, owners, governors - all the way up the line. It's a great opportunity to understand the league a little better and the challenges it faces.

  Chris Pronger

  League, Challenges, Lines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.

  George Deukmejian

  Jobs, California, People

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• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  Wale

  Real, Rapper, Greatness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.

  Filo Tiatia

  Mistake, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Hockey, Stories

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

  Jill Douglas

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with sport at whatever level. What I would say is, if you can, go and work with your local radio station covering local sporting events.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Radio

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

  Wendy Kopp

  Real, Believe, School

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

  Warwick Thornton

  Giving, World, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Giving, Luck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.

  Christopher Bailey

  Fashion, Team, Awards

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

  Henry Rollins

  Opportunities To Learn

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• Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.

  Christopher Walken

  Please Me, People, News

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• It's fun to challenge yourself and take advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves.

  Perez Hilton

  Fun, Challenges, Challenge Yourself

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• Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Country, People, President

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• I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Good Life, People, Acting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Curiosity, Roles

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Land

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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