Quotes About Opportunity

Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing, and I think that's a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen.

You've got be a good communicator in almost any job nowadays - but if you're enthusiastic and committed in your job, good things will come your way.

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.

I mean ESPN plucked me out of nowhere and I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. I don't love the way it ended. But I'm not a grudge-holder.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.

If I hit the lotto, I would be nowhere near the road. But I got bills to pay.

When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.

I would really love to win one of the men's championships and throw a complete curve ball, like, out of nowhere.

Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I'm glad I did it.

Nowhere is the same as England and that's why so many players want to come over here. That is why I would like to finish my career over here.

I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

Girls can be anything they want to be. Why be a nurse, for example, when you can be a doctor?

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.