#opportunity

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life. ↗

— Barack Obama

#choose #compete #education #ever #future

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#draw #explore #gives #ideas #imagination

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early. ↗

— John Pomfret

#early #enough #get #go #i

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#comes #disguised #hard #hard work #opportunity

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. ↗

— Robert Reich

#difference #equality #everyone #fair #fundamental

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#had #i #never #opportunity #practice

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world. ↗

— Donna Rice

#getting #glamour #i #job #marrying

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#admiring #afforded #allow #also #beauty

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. ↗

— Ed Markey

#brown #child #color #decision #dreams