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Opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
If you are passionate about something, with hard work and opportunity, you will continue as long as you are enjoying what you do.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
I'm so proud to represent my country at a World Cup because lots of players don't ever get that opportunity, including our manager, Phil Neville. He's reminded us of all the hard work he put in to try and get there, only for him to never make it past the last hurdle.
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.