Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.