“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.” UseSchoolFormOpportunityStudentsActivityElementsMusicalStringsExposed Author:Chuck Mangione
“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.” IfsWayShouldMeanSelfCountryHomeRememberPoliticalOpportunityLanguageUnderstandingCuttingMissingEssentialsElementsDiversityRegardOneselfMutualDesirableImaginativeAttainmentRealisationBetter FutureCultural DiversitySelf UnderstandingEnhancementMutual Understanding Author:Seamus Heaney
“Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.” MayWould BeFormOpportunityHouseMaterialsElementsCriticismBurdenValuableAbsenceAcceptedDiscussionResolutionApprovalUnnecessaryProceduresPublicitySanctionsTreatiesDisapprovalParliamentary Author:Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
“I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.” ThinkingDesireOpportunityElementsEmbraceBlindedCelibacySexual Desire Author:Edwina Findley
“My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.” MindOpportunityMy OwnAbilityEffortBrainElementsEducationalEducateExpandingExtendingPhilanthropic Author:Naveen Jain
“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.” SchoolOpportunityIndividualSocialBornEnvironmentGroupsBalanceOfficeElementsVariousContactLimitationSocial GroupsSocial Environment Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be a sponge and absorb everything they to teach, experience their energy, view them in their element and have the opportunity to ask them questions.” PeopleWantIdeasAsksOpportunityEnergyViewsTeachElementsSurroundSponges Author:Kreesha Turner
“I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then every time a [new] director would come in, they have their own artistic take on things and add in new elements. And a lot of times they would ask, "What did you love that you portrayed, and what do you wish that you could show?" So I felt, with each installment, I got the opportunity to add on something. I think she was very - you know, really sweet, [laughs] a little odd in the first installment.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindLittlesShowsAsksOpportunityWishFeltLaughingSweetDirectorsElementsResearchFoundationAddArtisticOddReally SweetAlice Cullen Author:Ashley Greene
“The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.” PeopleEndsPoliticalFoundOpportunityStruggleShapesElementsStructureBritishRadicalProgressiveMentalityGovernanceInstituteNigeriaDisadvantagedPolitical Struggle Author:Wole Soyinka
“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.” MenSometimesHandsSuccessYoungOpportunityWealthPoorHonestyYouthElementsProsperityYoung ManStrongestHonorableCompetenceTainted Author:Orison Swett Marden
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.” MatterOpportunityLostWaterWonderPersonalityCircumstancesElementsIllusionInstantDeniedMisunderstandingHighwaysMany Friends Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories