It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader’s opportunities to follow it at every step. – Harry Mathews
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Harry S Truman
I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one. – Henry Cloud
In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around. – George Kaiser
Americans get it. They’re ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven’t had in the past. – Greg Abbott
Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way. – Grant Achatz
We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people’s property. The Internet has very little to do with this. – Hilary Rosen
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents. – Hakeem Jeffries
Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy’s people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of ‘LB&R’. He loved it and said, ‘Sign me up.’ – Gary Calamar
Pessimism doesn’t grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities. – Harvey Mackay
My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities. – Heather Bresch
There are so many issues, so many opportunities to bring people together who have different perspectives, to develop action plans, and to have a significant impact on those issues. – Helen Johnson-Leipold
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. – George E. Brown, Jr.
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that’s bad for everybody. – Hillary Clinton
My advice to young people is to get something that’s growing because that’s how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don’t deserve, if you will… that come at you early because the firms need you. – Hamilton E. James
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. – Harvey Mackay
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn’t really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I’ve been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I’ve been in the NBA. – James Harden
I set the bar high because I don’t want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don’t come along all the time! – Idina Menzel
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren’t available to men before or after, just a very brief period. – John Malkovich
I wouldn’t say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul. – Joan Jett
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. – Jurgen Habermas
It wasn’t on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what’s happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I’m at the twilight of my career of like 48 years. – Jacki Weaver
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. – Igor Stravinsky