Embracing Opportunities Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal. — Dana Goodyear

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in. — Dougray Scott

Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation. — Bella Forrest

I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going. — Charles Schwab

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa] — Paul Boateng

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. — Albert Ellis

Healing was more than just being cured of cancer or finding the one who actually saw you for you. It was more than getting over your past, embracing your future. Healing's waking up every day when you'd rather stay in bed; healing's when you smile instead of cry; healing's when you can hold your head high, despite what demons try to pull it down. And life was full of it, full of opportunities to cut and run, rather than stay put and face the storm. They never — Rachel Van Dyken

Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out. — L. Ron Hubbard

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough — Colleen Carroll Campbell

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed. — Jim Bankoff

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund. — Romesh Wadhwani

We had a priest like you when I was a girl," she said. "We called him Father What-A-Waste. — Tiffany Reisz

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world. — Clive Owen

I love you Hyung-nim. Always ... if you ever feel the need to rip me to shreds and eat me, do it. My blood, my flesh, everything is yours. I won't leave you. I love you Hyung-nim. — Hajin Yoo

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close. — John O'Donohue

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities. — Vironika Tugaleva

Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick? — Raymond Chandler

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss. — Janine Shepherd

In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships. — Jessica Lahey

If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you'd know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don't drink too much, don't smoke, and don't get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes. — Ben Goldacre