Quotes About Opportunity

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

I wish I had had more mentorship and more access, not only for capital, but the critical thinking.

I didn't even go to college. I wish I did.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.

I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games'... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

I auditioned for quite a lot of films. I do not wish to name the films I auditioned for. There were times when I knew I would not be fit for this film, or I would not get this film. Still, I used to audition for it just to get experience... to practice.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

I could always say I wished I had a better film career... but overall, I've been one of the lucky ones.

I always wanted to work with Ayushmann Khurrana and I wished that I would get a good script to team up with him.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

I have been quite open to the idea of working with any actor who wishes to sing for their films but only if their voice suits the song in hand.

The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.

Flying gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and I hope that anyone who wishes to learn has the opportunity to do so.

I'm always wishing for more intrigue and meaty stuff to do as an actor.