Quotes About Seizing Opportunities

#1. Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

Don Yaeger

#2. Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

Angela Glover Blackwell

#3. Being an entrepreneur isn't just a job title, and it isn't just about starting a company. It's a state of mind. It's about seeing connections others can't, seizing opportunities others won't, and forging new directions that others haven't.

Tory Burch

#4. Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore White

#5. She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Eleanor Catton

#6. It's good to pass on stories.

Jami Attenberg

#7. Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.

Steve Maraboli

#8. The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Jerry Brown

#9. The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

Tom Stoppard

#10. Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Bill Shuster

#11. Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

Rachel Hartman

#12. All that was a dream, you couldn't hold on, you couldn't depend on frosted glass and Debussy.

Janet Fitch

#13. I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Richard King

#14. True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.

Julia Alvarez

#16. We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Rebecca Solnit

#17. Some of the cruelest men in the world were born with silver tongues. They could charm a bird right out of the sky, only to break its wings. And no men, nice or cruel, offer favors lightly - not strangers. Not to young women. Not without expecting something back in return.

Nenia Campbell

#18. By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Robin S. Sharma

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Mary Higgins Clark

#20. I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

Al Gore

#21. I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.

Allen Leech