Quotes About Opportunity

I'm not good at Disney acting. I'm really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don't mind. I don't know. I look back, and I'm kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, 'What if I had gone that route?'

I like film, and I like Broadway; I just love performing, so whatever God has for me, I'll be happy to just try it and see what happens because no matter what, if I'm performing, I'll be happy.

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

You can't sit around and go 'what if.'

What if every high-caliber chef told our investors that for every fancy restaurant we build, it would be a requirement to build one in the hood as well?

One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if there's room for Ray, there might be room for Jose.'

If you look at the positives, if you test yourself and challenge yourself... I describe myself as a 'yes' person. If you say no to too many things, you think 'what if'.

What if, tomorrow, my kids want to join the industry and for that matter, any other profession? We want the world and the industry to become a better place for them and us.

One thing I really believe is control what you can control so for me, each and every day I get an opportunity, no matter what if I'm with the ones, twos, threes, fours. If your number is called and you get a rep, make the best of the rep.

I'm one of those people that develop late, so what if these are my peak years in baseball? I would never know unless I put myself out there, and if I fail, I fail.

I don't want to be someone who asks 'what if?'

It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 years later and say, 'I never tried.' You got to try.

You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.

With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.