Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

A lot of actresses start out modeling because it's a great way to sort of get your foot in the door. That's all it is, though. They open the door, and you have to walk through it.

I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.