David Fizdale Quotes

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

We pride ourselves on taking opportunities to win when we have them.

It's very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

The way I look at it is I try to take advantage of every opportunity I've got.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

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

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

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

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

I can tell you that I'm getting open and I'm trying to take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way.

I got a lot of opportunities and I was able to make the best of them.