Top 1200 Preparation And Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I would love to see Bellator come up and offer an opportunity for competition. Then, fighters could negotiate contracts, and they would not be limited to having only one opportunity, one option, where you have to take what's given to you.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

You can eat interestingly without having to spend a lot of money, with a little bit of preparation.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

The Democrats stand to lose even more seats in the Senate. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's certainly a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix everything that has been on our minds for 30 years. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's not being utilized - and it isn't being utilized, sadly, because the perception is that it's House and Senate Republicans that are refusing to work with Donald Trump, that they're embarrassed of him, that they don't want Trump to become the definition of a Republican.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

That was always a dream of mine to play division one basketball. Not knowing that I wasn't going to get the opportunity because of my past and previous couple of years in college. The opportunity to play with only one year of eligibility was great.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.

These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.

Mental and physical preparation is critical in tournament poker events like the WSOP.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.

The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying attention. It's time for us to really get serious about political education and about our own moral education in this moment, and to seize this opportunity to organize and be in deep dialogue with a whole lot of people who never even thought about being politically engaged or active before. There's real hope there and real opportunity.

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

It is scary for me to do a film by directly showing up on the sets without any preparation.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Never underestimate the importance of preparation for any single poker session or tournament.

I feel preparation is a vital part of music as without it, the spontaneity goes haywire.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

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.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.