Quotes About Opportunity

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

In your mindset, you just have to know there's going to be another opportunity, and you have to keep focused.

I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.

It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.

I have nothing against employment but it seems that our school system is too focused on training good employees but not good entrepreneurs. There should be a balance. We should learn from the entrepreneurial mindset of the Chinese.

You try and do the best you can whenever you are out there. It's just an individual mindset that when I do get the opportunity then do what I do to help the team.

The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a particular salary. We're used to that kind of a life, and that's how we bring up our children.

You have to go in with a mindset, just if you're open you're going to shoot your shot.

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

Coal miners work hard and deserve our respect. They also deserve a governor who fights for policies that will give them a fair shot to support their families and get ahead. That's exactly what I'll deliver as governor.

My first car was a 2011 Mini Cooper, because I only learned to drive in 2010.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I spend most of my time thinking about - whether I am making the minimum or a big number, salary-wise - how can I be competitive as long as I have an opportunity to play.

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

Learning is not limited to the classroom, and Minnesota shouldn't limit its education resources there, either.