I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
Ellen Ochoa

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
Mitch Daniels

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.
Lee Majors

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
Greg Egan

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
Alexis Bledel

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Shakti Gawain

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.
Charles Fillmore

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Bill Nye

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.
Namie Amuro

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Claire Danes

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.
Fred L. Turner

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
Doug Coupland

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.
John W. Snow

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter