Quotes About Opportunity

Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.

It's super cool - I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

Frankly, I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and college.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

China and Hong Kong represent an enormous growth opportunity for McDonald's.

Since girls and women represent 50 percent of the world population, enabling them to participate in their local economies helps broaden the employment pool.

I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.

Obviously to be on this team, to be able to represent my country and have the platform that I do, I'm incredibly grateful for it.

The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.

You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.

A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism.

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.