Quotes About Rare Opportunities

#1. Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Bill Walton

#2. I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Josh Billings

#4. I had learned from my own father's death many years ago that the end of one's life and dying are two very different things indeed, and took solace in that.

Jasper Fforde

#5. It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

Curtis Jackson

#6. Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

A. Lynn

#8. In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

Judith M Bardwick

#9. It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

Bill Nighy

#10. Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.

Joel T. McGrath

#11. Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

Jerry Saltz

#12. If the Modern Technical Age is to remain human, it cannot overlook the trust that our ancestors have left with us. Our past cannot be mere matter for a more or less curious utilitarianism, like iron deposits, say, on the moon.

Marshall G.S. Hodgson

#13. I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

Allison Williams

#14. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

#15. Joblessness is a rare privilege

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.

Dave Cutler

#17. When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.

Anthony Trollope

#18. Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Jan Struther

#19. I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Isabelle Huppert

#20. To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish.

Euginia Herlihy

#21. At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

Tadao Ando