Zach Anner

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

American Comedian

Mauro Ranallo

I go into calling any match, any fight - I don't care if it's the main event or the opener - that these guys have put in their work: they're here for a reason, and there's a reason I'm calling this fight, so I do want to give it as much attention and respect and energy as I would the main event or a championship fight.

Canadian Entertainer

Jos Buttler

A really important technique for me is visualisation. Before a match I will sit down and think about all the different situations which might happen on the field - if the openers start well, if you end up going out earlier than expected, what the conditions might be like.

English Athlete

Conchita Wurst

Winning the Eurovision contest is just a door opener, this is not that you're set for life. Definitely not, don't mistake that, because you really have to work your behind off to sustain in this business.

Austrian Musician

Patti Smith

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

American Musician

Travis Barker

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

Shreyas Iyer

Openers being there, it was important to get a good start, once you get the momentum, you can build on later.

Indian Cricketer

Ajinkya Rahane

It always helps a team when the opener is able to bat till the 20th over. I am learning to do so.

Kevin Connolly

I've been very supportive of the Islanders. I'm at every home opener.

American Actor

George MacDonald

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Scottish Novelist

Opener often refers to a tool requiring a physical action to use, like gripping and twisting.

Physical Action

Each type of opener is designed for a specific container, so it's important to use the correct one.

Specific Use

An opener in entertainment warms up the audience for the main event.

Entertainment Context

As an event's opener, it sets the tone and expectations for what's to follow.

Expectations Setting

In cricket, the opener takes the first batting position, facing the fresh, challenging bowlers.

Cricket Specific

A cricket opener is strategically important, aiming to set a stable foundation for the team.

Strategic Role

Used as an ice breaker, an opener in a conversation eases into dialogue.

Conversation Start

Opener remarks are usually casual, helping connect with new acquaintances.

Casual Interaction

 Let's think about probability. If we want to engage someone in the process of opening boxes to try and find pies, we want to make sure it's neither too easy, nor too difficult, to find a pie. So what do you do? Well, you look at a million people -- no, 100 million people, 100 million box openers --

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...

 And the point of this magazine was to read the articles, listen to the music, and try to interpret it. There's no grid, there's no system, there's nothing set up in advance. This is an opener for Brian Eno, and it's just kind of my personal interpretation of the music.

David Carson: Design,...

 a problem we only use Diesel's on-site Wi-Fi modems cordless telephones no cellular phones the automatic door opener at the local store no digital cameras come here piggy piggy Hey when you go and you tell people stuff like that they can't believe we're in

The U.S. Town With No...

 is a knife that you have never touched that is very important to know especially if you're in the dock and you're innocent so forensic science isn't always the opener shut case that we might think it is it is possible that

The dangers of...

 and sky is about landscape photography but some of my landscapes were seascapes and some of my seascapes were sky scapes so we group them together and gave them this title and chose this picture as the chapter opener

The Life of a Photograph...

 and I cut through the ceiling joists, much to my parents' delight, and put the door, you know, being pulled up through the ceiling. I built -- I put a garage-door opener up in the attic that would pull this door up.

Philip Rosedale: Second...

 me for most of human history musicians artists they've been part of the community connectors and and openers not untouchable stars celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance

The art of asking -...

 I trust you this much. Should I? Show me. For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community. Connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

The art of asking PIPE...

 "luck" and "well-being." In the early 1900s, before it was appropriated by Hitler, it was used by Coca-Cola on a good luck bottle opener.

Debbie Millman: How...

 to their size as some look for a in its leg armor others prise open its body plates like a tin opener