In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education. I was particularly inspired by my upbringing in Guatemala, a poor country where high-quality educational opportunities are limited to those who have money.
Everyone faces difficulties; not everyone looks for the opportunities in every difficulty.
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.
Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
I happen to be one of those lucky people who says that she's a working actor. And to always be working is very fulfilling and I'm just lucky because the opportunities just came up. And as an Asian American female actor, the opportunities have been furthering, have been widening all across the years. And I can say that there are many young people who see that the opportunities are expanding, as well as you can make it yourself.
If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.
If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.
When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.
You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.
I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock it. . . Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself
There are opportunities out there for everyone, always. This truly inspires me.
With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy