Top 1200 Preparation And Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

There's a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

One of the biggest challenges in investing is that the opportunity set available today is not the complete opportunity set that should be considered. Limiting your opportunity set to the one immediately at hand would be like limiting your spouse to the students you met in high school

I first started in tech when one of my friends and I decided it was a good opportunity to start a company while we were in school because we had almost no opportunity cost. Our opportunity cost was playing 'World of Warcraft' and drinking beer. We thought it was a good time to try something.

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.

I just got an opportunity to do that with a film called 'Lootcase', and it's an opportunity that I am really grateful for.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.

My job is to be the bench coach with the Rays and help this team succeed. If another opportunity arises, I'd welcome the opportunity.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.

Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that's going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.

For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!