Quotes about Opportunity

O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

My rookie year in New England was mind-blowing.

When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the best writing I've ever done, I still found myself looking for the next thing.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.

Francis Collins put it, "Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger exists, if it were not connected to some opportunity for fulfillment?

Necessity remains the mother of invention.

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems.

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. [...] But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibilities, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities - whose finite sum constitutes the whole of life - pass by unused.