For Opportunity Quotes

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

We think that helps bring it up to a place where our storyboard writers then get the opportunity to be able to take that energy and really bring it to the show. I credit that entirely to our cast.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

You just have to be open to the opportunities as they come to you.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

I just want an opportunity. If you don’t like the audition, don’t hire me! But if you don’t want to even see me - that’s hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

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.

Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

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

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.

I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'

Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.