Quotes About Opportunity

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

I am an optimist about America.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.

If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.

I'm very optimistic about the future, because... Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are usually not played by African-American women, so she's very inspiring to me just because of that, you know what I mean?

When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

I'm always optimistic and grateful for every opportunity I get.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

I wasn't good at anything at school, and acting was the only thing that I really loved doing and was interested in. It was kind of like my only option. For me to get opportunities in acting is so fortunate. I found something I loved doing and wasn't terrible at; it was quite nice.

Me going to college was not an option.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

Now, if I speak to people who want to act, I say, 'Don't give yourself a back-up.' If I had gone to university, I wouldn't be doing this job now. Having that pressure and no other option just made me work that much harder for it, because you have no other choice.

If I see someone I think is in a better position than me, it is better for me to give the ball. Now I shoot more at goal. When I was young, they sometimes said to me, 'You need to shoot more. You try to give it too much.' It is something that I learned. To try to take the best option.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.