Opportunity Quotes

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

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.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.