Quotes About Opportunity

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

My philosophy is, I can't make every product that can possibly use a high-performance CPU and graphics. Why shouldn't I enable others, in a positive fashion, to leverage AMD IP in more places?

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in our family to go to college, that whole thing.

Everything that I have is because I live in America. If I was in Iran, I wouldn't be in the UFC... But, I came here, and I got to do something amazing. And that's because of America.

My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.

Playing in Europe has been very good for our players in making progress and if more come here then I think it will help Iranian football.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.

I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

People say sometimes that I'm distracted. I'm not distracted. I'm being smart. I'm capitalizing while the iron is hot. That's why I'm trying to do movies. I do the podcast. I do a radio show. I work on FOX. I have a gym; I have a lot of things going on. That's because when I'm done, I want to be set up.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.