Quotes About Aspirations

Playing pretty big minutes in the playoffs and having career games in the playoffs is something you dream of as a kid but never really think will happen.

This is what you dream about when you're a kid: You dream about March Madness, you dream about the NBA playoffs.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

I play in dreams. I don't ever have coaching dreams. But I have football dreams, still.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.

I have aspirations to conquer the world. Let's see what happens.

I don't think I'm a slacker, but I don't have aspirations to, like, conquer Hollywood. Or the world. Or anything.

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime.

I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.