Opportunity
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And here's the
opportunity.
The service providers, well, for the first time, they've got an
opportunity
to provide services and grow the evidence for what they're doing in a really constructive way and learn and demonstrate the value of what they're doing over five or six years, not just one or two as often happens at the moment.
We've met thousands, possibly millions of people, who want the
opportunity
to invest in social change.
What a fantastic
opportunity
for leaders and many young leaders to come, especially in the developing countries.
Now for as long as I can remember, my job has been to take people out into nature, and so I think it's a lovely twist of fate today to have the
opportunity
to bring some of my experiences out in nature in to this gathering.
These folks see that same vacant land and those same abandoned homes as
opportunity
for new, entrepreneurial ideas and profit, so much so that former models can move to Detroit, buy property, start successful businesses and restaurants, and become successful community activists in their neighborhood, bringing about very positive change.
And that's understandable, because the American dream is an idea in which we all have an equal
opportunity
to succeed and prosper, as long as we apply ourselves and work hard.
And each time we make a new
opportunity
place, we're allowing a platform to make new ones.
That's a real fresh
opportunity.
What a lost
opportunity.
But it's findings like this that may provide hope and may provide an
opportunity
to save lives of both women and men.
There's tremendous
opportunity
in sustainability.
The thing that I fear, the only thing that I fear, apart from the fact that I've run out of time, is that the window of
opportunity
for this idea is a short one.
And so I did things like travel to South Africa, where I had an
opportunity
to understand how Nelson Mandela was ahead of his time in anticipating and navigating his political, social and economic context.
There is no doubt this is the biggest conservation
opportunity
in Africa in decades.
So to return to the original problem, what is the
opportunity
of these stem cells, or this disruptive technology, for repairing the damaged brain, which we call regenerative neurology?
I truly believe building up INCRA is in everyone's interest, and that we have the unique
opportunity
right now to turn INCRA into a cornerstone of a new, more inclusive financial system.
There seems to be a window of opportunity, after which mastering moral questions becomes more difficult, like adults learning a foreign language.
But because of the country's sheer scale and status as a rising superpower, the needs of its population have created an
opportunity
for truly compelling impact.
An enormous
opportunity.
There is such an
opportunity
right now.
And all being well, welcome, Rick Ledgett, to TED. (Applause) Richard Ledgett: I'm really thankful for the
opportunity
to talk to folks here.
I think I would say that Congress members had the
opportunity
to make themselves aware, and in fact a significant number of them, the ones who are assigned oversight responsibility, did have the ability to do that.
So that was our global thing, and then in the U.S., both of us have had amazing educations, and we saw that as the way that the U.S. could live up to its promise of equal
opportunity
is by having a phenomenal education system, and the more we learned, the more we realized we're not really fulfilling that promise.
The first
opportunity
I had to fight for a great public open space was in the early 1980s, when I was leading a team of planners at a gigantic landfill called Battery Park City in lower Manhattan on the Hudson River.
And when we learn more, we have an
opportunity
to bring costs down.
So I think it's time for us to be comfortable with the uncomfortable conversation about race: black, white, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, all of us, if we truly believe in equal rights and equal
opportunity
in America, I think we have to have real conversations about this issue.
The world is filled with danger, things that are trying to frustrate our lives or reduce our success, reduce our
opportunity
for success.
They want to provide their people opportunity, education, discipline when necessary, build their self-confidence, give them the
opportunity
to try and fail, all so that they could achieve more than we could ever imagine for ourselves.
And this is, I think, the predicament of our lives: that we don't take every
opportunity
to help because our focus is in the wrong direction.
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