Quotes About Opportunities

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

With advances in technology come new in-demand career paths.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

When I look back to being a 10-year-old girl, I never could have dreamt of having this pathway. I feel very fortunate and proud, but I know I have to be part of creating new opportunities for the youth coming through.

I learned that I had to be patient and I had work hard even if the opportunities were not there. I just had to keep working to find them.

I've done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial.

I think there's a danger in letting someone else shape how you're going to approach a player. Every person has somebody who's going to say something negative about them, you know? If you pay attention to all that stuff instead of seeing it for your own eyes, you can miss out on some opportunities.

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

Penalties are easy if you score, but in open play, we create chances as well.

I can do a lot more by shooting from outside, score inside, penetrate, and make opportunities for others.

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.