Quotes About Opportunity

I've been told no a thousand times and 'Model Search' gave me the opportunity to be seen, to be heard.

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

In my way of thinking, the world was my oyster, and there were thousands of products that could be developed.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.

It's a myth that you need thousands of pounds to start a business.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.