#opportunity

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #goes #hard #hard work #like

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on. The choice is never simple. It’s never easy. It’s not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realized that the test was always about the heart. ...The rest is just practice. ↗

— Jaime Buckley

#opportunity #potential #practice #life

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#almost #along #came #college #go

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work. ↗

— Richard Hanna

#created #hurt #i #making #opportunity

Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer. ↗

— James Harden

#being #chance #country #feeling #finalist

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else. ↗

— Colleen Haskell

#being #consider #did #else #everything

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#genocide #guard #huddled #indian #indian tribes

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#extraordinary #free #free society #live #mind

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it. ↗

— Scott Ian

#fine #get #i #know #once

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#gentleman #getting #gives #hardly #himself