Quotes About Opportunity

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.

Jaipur plays an important role in my journey of becoming an actress. It all began in this city. One day, someone spotted me in the city and asked me to come for a photoshoot.

Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

Draft day is just another chapter in my life.

I kind of feel the career chose me. My motto has always been, 'Go where I'm wanted.'

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.

I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the Japanese culture.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

Ultimately, our goal is to provide all artists with the opportunity to make a living on MySpace.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

If I had the opportunity to fight any fighter, if you'd asked me when I started fighting, it would be Fedor. That aura and mystique about him.

Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.