Quotes About Aspirations

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

The overriding aim of this book is to seek viable responses to the biggest dilemma of our times: reconciling our aspirations for the good life with the constraints of a finite planet.

That's what the suitcase farmers were doing. Salesmen, druggists, barkeeps, docs, mechanics, teachers—the range of day-jobbers who thought they wanted to be wheat farmers, ripping up a half-section here and there, trying to hit a crop—they were getting out before they got in any deeper.

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from.

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Aspirar a conseguir mil compradores es mucho más viable que un millón de seguidores.

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

In 1998, the New York Times reported that "in the [annual UCLA] survey taken at the start of the fall semester, 74.9 percent of freshmen chose being well off as an essential goal and 40.8 percent chose developing a philosophy. In 1968, the numbers were reversed, with 40.8 percent selecting financial security and 82.5 percent citing the importance of developing a philosophy."4

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I hope through 'The Family Man,' I get some good offers.

So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.