#opportunity

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did. ↗

— Jo Brand

#arose #comedy #did #down #fancied

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before! ↗

— Adam Faith

#because #been #before #down #ever

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene. ↗

— Young Buck

#cause #felt #i #like #moving

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ↗

— John Dewey

#find #fitted #happiness #key #opportunity

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#asked #done #emulate #every #first

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life. ↗

— Selma Blair

#aspects #bond #direction #focus #gave

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#every #i #opportunity #regrets #take

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#comes #his #life #man #opportunity

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#his #life #man #opportunity #ready