Quotes About Opportunity

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market will reward you. If it raises the value of our collection, we go for it.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they'll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.

I had a great opportunity to be an F1 driver but, on the other hand, I have a great opportunity to become a rally driver with a very good programme.

Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.

My first film was Ram Gopal Varma's 'Company.' I was paid Rs 3 lakhs for it.

Women do have better roles to play, more characters are being written. For instance, Surpriya Pathak's character in 'Ram Leela' or Neena Gupta's part in 'Badhaai Ho'.'

I still can't believe I acted in Ram Gopal Varma's direction.

I got 'Jogger's Park' perhaps because one fellow Bengali Sachin Bhowmick, who's the writer of the movie, recommended my name. Then Ram Gopal Varma was kind enough to offer me a role in 'Bhoot.'

I got a break in 1999 in Ram Gopal Varma's 'Jungle.' I won awards for 'Jungle.'

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.