Brian McKnight Quotes

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

One chance can make the rest of your career.

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.

Pippin' was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.

When you get to the big games you never know when you are going to be back so you've got to try as best as you can to take advantage of those opportunities.

I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

It was a miracle that I became an actress. I survived because of hard work and perseverance.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

I don't think I could have dreamt it up any better than how things went, of being at my peak at just the right time, and have everything go my way.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.