#opportunity

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. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#ballots #been #being #county #human

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. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#drunk #indifferent #make #must #open

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#called #coffee #disparity #ethiopia #farmer

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#anything #beautiful #god #handwriting #lose

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #flourish #followed #given #greatest

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#blind #comes #even #get #goals

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl. ↗

— Christopher Knight

#enemy #ever #get #girl #goat

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#be different #because #better #big #big opportunity

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#attention spans #drawn #i #into #like