Tess Gerritsen Quotes

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

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 never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

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

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.