Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.
Angelina JolieEducation must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam ChomskyIn truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader GinsburgCynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
Fidel CastroBecause, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff BezosTake advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim RohnI think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.
Steve JobsNormally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
Brene BrownIf you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhat I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Barack ObamaI’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
Kevin HartYou can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.
Tom BradyWatch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. PattonIn this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.
Richard BransonI think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.
David BowieThe Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.
Robert KiyosakiWhen one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham BellThe point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
Franklin D. RooseveltThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouI believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerSuccessful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘
Brian TracyWe know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
Jim MattisWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonA pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. TrumanI like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
Matthew McConaugheyIn Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Noam ChomskyI want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
Angelina JolieI can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy CarterI think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
Paul AusterMy kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
Kevin HartIn the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack ObamaYou do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren BuffettThe man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. ForbesThe opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
Herbert HooverEach generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.
Ronald ReaganThe world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark ZuckerbergI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel WashingtonIt’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Kobe BryantCheck your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Dwayne JohnsonSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous HuxleyI try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.
DrakeI’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Audrey HepburnTo hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce LeeI can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo CoelhoLife opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim CarreyIf we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfI think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
Lou HoltzWe will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.
Narendra ModiThe important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil ArmstrongTo be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.
Stephen CurryThere’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Cristiano RonaldoIt’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
Jim CarreyThe press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
Christopher HitchensThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard ShawI want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. ColeAs you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis BaconI just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.
J. K. RowlingWe stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy