Quotes About Opportunity

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.

Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

It has been a great honor to serve the four campuses of the University of Missouri System in the role of curator, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to schools that let their talents and intelligence and energy flow. Give them the right schools, with discipline and order and a love of learning, and they will have a chance of real academic achievement.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.