#opportunity

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. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#american #american pie #been #comedies #ever

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#combines #marriage #maximum #opportunity #popular

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#belief #blind #braille #core #effective

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#before #believe #engine #government #i

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#missed #more #nothing #opportunity #than

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#apply #because #better #get #having

How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real. ↗

— Michael Stein

#missing #opportunity #reminiscing #age

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. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#being #children #class #color #delightful

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#people #predictability #surprise #art

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made. ↗

— Nicholas Boothman

#communication #inspirational #opportunity #attitude