Quotes About Opportunity

When you try to do things outside of the box, you run risks.

I dedicate much of my success to what I learned inside and outside the classroom at Porter-Gaud, and I want to give that same opportunity to other kids in Charleston.

The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

I am an outsider. I was never offered the kind of roles where I could play the glamorous diva, because there are already so many of them doing it - and doing it well. So I had to bring to the table much more than just looking good.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

I'm not trying to say that the work I have done in the past is path-breaking, but I have definitely tried to pick the best from what I was offered and being an outsider with no one to guide me I think I have done well.

It is harder for an outsider to make an entry into the industry, but that also does not mean star kids have it easy.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

I have been around for 33 years and I don't have a filmy background. I don't know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Maybe I am not destined to be part of movies. I feel that one needs to be connected in Bollywood, because, for outsiders, if the first film doesn't work, no one gives them a second chance.

We have jobs in Maharashtra but outsiders are getting them. They are also getting admission in educational institutions depriving our children of their rights.

You will not find outsiders getting main, important roles in big films. The difficult part is to meet the right people.

Outsiders don't get it easy. I was not even expecting to get a film.

From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.