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Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.
God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.
I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.
I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.
Missing out on some opportunity never bothers us. What's wrong with someone getting a little richer than you? It's crazy to worry about this.
I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
The role in 'See No Evil,' Jacob Goodnight, was perfect for me, so if I got the opportunity to do that again, I certainly would consider that.
A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.
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.
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.
I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes.
Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.
The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced.
Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.
Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.
I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.
As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.