Quotes about Opportunity

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

It is exciting to be recruited by North Carolina, UCLA, Syracuse and other schools that have won many national championships. But as I prayed about it and talked with my family, I felt that BYU was the best place for me.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.

the Twelve Steps, however, believes that sin and failure are, in fact, the setting and opportunity for the transformation and enlightenment of the offender

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

As Mary Oliver puts it, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?