Opportunity Quotes - Page 38

• You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Doors, Ends

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Games, Preparation

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Missing, Littles

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Greatness, Maintaining The Status Quo

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• Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

  Sophia Loren

  Luck, Needs, Moments

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Class, Actors, Done

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Germany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.

  Milton Friedman

  Fire, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Past, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Cinema, Television

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Grateful, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, People, Actors

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

  Raymond Buckland

  Running, Imagination, Fiction

  Source: paganpages.org

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, People, Giving

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• Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Today, Building

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• The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

  Anne Waldman

  Strong, Blessed, Challenges

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

  J Tillman

  Albums, Use, Able

  Source: www.nyctaper.com

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• I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

  Henry Cejudo

  World, Want, Best Opportunity

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• From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Powerful, Moving

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because that's their only voice. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I pay attention to opportunities coming my way, gays and lesbians telling me what I've done for them, organizations in my community that always want to work with me.

  Jackie Warner

  Gay, Organization, Voice

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.

  Antony Hegarty

  Lonely, Thinking, Voice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

  Eric Bell

  America, Enhancement, Improvement

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  Angela Davis

  Responsibility, Thinking, Doors

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

  Heather Mitts

  Team, Challenges, Honor

  Source: soccerlens.com

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