Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
~By Marshall Field ~
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.
~By Mike Curb ~
Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.
~By Jill Scott ~
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
~By Jon Secada ~
That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.
~By Douglas Wood ~
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
~By Paul Ryan ~
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 ~
I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
~By William Pollard ~
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
~By Rita Coolidge ~
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
~By David Sarnoff ~
Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
~By Sarah Polley ~
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.
~By Eric Clapton ~
Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
~By Joe Biden ~
Opportunity makes a thief.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
~By Mark Foley ~
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
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.
~By David Lynch ~
I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
~By Bill Frist ~
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
~By Colin Powell ~
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.
~By Ben McKenzie ~
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
~By Sammy Sosa ~
The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.
~By Marc Garneau ~
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~By Milton Berle ~
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.
~By Phil Lesh ~
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
~By Max von Sydow ~
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
~By Maynard Jackson ~
I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
~By Angela Bassett ~
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 ~
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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 ~
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
~By Tony Oliva ~
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~
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.
~By Nick Lampson ~
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
~By Rider Strong ~
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
~By Earl Warren ~
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
~By Steven Bochco ~
We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
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 ~
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
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 ~
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 ~
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
~By Sam Elliott ~
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
~By Holly Near ~
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
~By Dorothy Kilgallen ~
I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.
~By Mark Harmon ~
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 ~
I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.
~By Timothy Bottoms ~
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
~By Rowan Williams ~
I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
~By Britney Spears ~
The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
~By Rafer Johnson ~
I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.
~By Nia Long ~
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
~By Henry Reed ~
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.
~By Ray Dolby ~
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
~By Alice Foote MacDougall ~
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
~By Adam Schiff ~
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~By Peter Marshall ~
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.
~By Joe Miller ~
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.
~By Steve Burton ~
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
~By Steven Bochco ~
There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
~By Amy Weber ~
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