The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
~By Robert Collier ~
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
~By Bill Owens ~
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.
~By John Boehner ~
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
~By Ryan White ~
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!
~By David Prowse ~
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
~By David Friedrich Strauss ~
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
~By James H. Breasted ~
The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.
~By Kathleen Sebelius ~
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
~By Brad Henry ~
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
~By Robert Mueller ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
~By Mae West ~
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
~By Ed Smith ~
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
~By Buddy Rich ~
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
~By Jerry Brown ~
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
~By William Pollard ~
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
~By Bobby Orr ~
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
~By Chris Matthews ~
You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.
~By Jerry Moss ~
Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.
~By Mary Hart ~
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
~By Valerie Solanas ~
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
~By Anita Diament ~
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 ~
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~By Sun Tzu ~
It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.
~By Tom Moody ~
Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.
~By Mary Douglas ~
Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
~By Francis Bacon ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
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 civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
~By Robert Shea ~
I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
~By Tea Leoni ~
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
~By Walter Koenig ~
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
~By Joe Baca ~
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
~By Bill Richardson ~
Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.
~By Leeza Gibbons ~
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
~By Al Lewis ~
I think the world should be one community.
~By Neil Tennant ~
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
~By Mark Strong ~
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
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 ~
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~By Washington Irving ~
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
~By Nancy Greene ~
We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
~By Cornel West ~
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
~By Margaret Chan ~
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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 ~
Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me.
~By Rita Mero ~
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 ~
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.
~By Roland Allen ~
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
~By Howard Schultz ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.
~By Kevin Johnson ~
We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
~By Buzz Osborne ~
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.
~By Jimmy Haynes ~
Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.
~By Paul Martin ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
~By Lukas Haas ~
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
~By Aly Khan ~
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
~By Serge Lang ~
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
~By Denzel Washington ~
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
~By Donna Brazile ~
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
~By Tony Campolo ~
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