So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.
~By Buddy Rich ~
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.
~By Guglielmo Marconi ~
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
~By Denzel Washington ~
I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.
~By Shiri Appleby ~
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
~By John W. Thompson ~
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
~By Jack Kemp ~
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
~By Chris Chocola ~
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
~By Sofia Kovalevskaya ~
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.
~By Allen West ~
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me.
~By Rita Mero ~
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
~By Sidney Altman ~
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
~By Jack Kingston ~
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
~By Edward Hoagland ~
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
~By Mark Hatfield ~
There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.
~By Van Jones ~
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.
~By Debbie Meyer ~
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
~By Albert Einstein ~
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
~By Ben Nelson ~
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
~By Abdallah II ~
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
~By Sean William Scott ~
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
~By Clay Aiken ~
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
~By Paul Bettany ~
With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.
~By Tina Yothers ~
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
~By Andy Taylor ~
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
~By Vera Wang ~
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
~By Colleen Haskell ~
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
~By John Hersey ~
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
~By Robert Moog ~
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
~By John Tesh ~
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
~By John Boehner ~
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
~By Moira Kelly ~
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
~By Gordon Smith ~
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
~By Dean Stockwell ~
Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.
~By Peter Arnett ~
Opportunity makes a thief.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
~By Steve Buyer ~
If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
~By Ethan Coen ~
I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.
~By Greg Norman ~
My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.
~By Robert Mueller ~
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
~By Joichi Ito ~
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
~By Michael Phelps ~
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
~By Henry J. Kaiser ~
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
~By Carrot Top ~
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
~By Robin Hayes ~
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
~By Ron Glass ~
We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
~By Jim Jeffords ~
I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
~By Donald O'Connor ~
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
~By Dick Spring ~
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
~By Nanci Griffith ~
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
~By Margaret Chan ~
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
~By William P. Leahy ~
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
~By John Burroughs ~
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
~By Julie Andrews ~
The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
~By Charlie Simpson ~
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
~By Jim Rohn ~
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
~By Tom Allen ~
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
~By Lorin Maazel ~
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
~By Levon Helm ~
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
~By Michael Nyman ~
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.
~By Nick Ferguson ~
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
~By Greg Louganis ~
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
~By Namie Amuro ~
It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.
~By Roger Clemens ~
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
~By Mwai Kibaki ~
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
~By John Flavel ~
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
~By Tom Selleck ~
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