Quotes About Opportunity

It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

After making two big movies 'Chocolate' and 'Goal' with big stars and being completely involved with making ad films as such, the time had come to reinvent myself not only as a director but also as a human.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

Well-established companies choosing to reinvest and create new jobs is what helps communities like Chatham flourish.

The only way all people can have the opportunity to choose or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us, without judgment, to invite them to follow the Savior.

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.

It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work, there will be at least five who will reject you.

I mean, I'm an 'X Factor' reject presenting on Radio 2, what's going on?

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13.

It was funny, a lot of people who rejected me as a player, later said, 'Oh, we did it to help you.' I met a coach years later who said, 'I didn't take you at that time for your own good!'

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.

If someone decides to go ahead with a project that I had rejected earlier, and it works out well for him or her, there is no point in feeling bad.

I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.