Quotes About Opportunity

test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields.

chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

Un esfuerzo rico, educado y con contactos funciona mejor.

Antes de juzgar, recordemos que el esfuerzo no lo es todo, y que hay esfuerzos que parten en desventaja.

In one way or another, all of us are blind to whatever privileges life has handed us, even if those privileges are temporary

Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.

You have to work with the cards that life deals you.

is that you only get one life. We pass this way just once, Fay. Make the most of it.

Money may not be everything, but it's a pretty good cure for poverty.

Será que o Brasil vai ser sempre bom como dizem eles? Por que será que o estrangeiro chega pobre aqui e fica rico? E nós, os naturais, aqui nascemos, aqui nós vivemos e morremos pobres?".

Everything is evened up in the world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

There is no better boost in the present than an invitation to the future.

She says New York was like Sesame Street for grown-ups, everyone has big hearts and you can be anything you wanna be.

She was always changing her mind, imagining all the roads not taken. She was spongy, and sponges can't make big life decisions.

There is no better boost in the presence than an invitation to the future.

See, I started to feel old my junior year of college. I was gonna go to Prague and I backed out at the last minute and a lot of my friends, they made me feel old, like I'd missed out on something I could never get back, as if Prague was going out of business. As if that was it, forever, as if you have to be in college to go abroad.

Ride the wave...Don't wait for it. Don't fear it. Just ride it.

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?