Quotes About Aspirations

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.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

If a top four job came along, I don't think people will look at Tony Pulis to do that.

When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.

Having a house with seven-and-a-half acres of land and a swimming pool wasn't really on my agenda when in my old job and while I haven't spent too much money on cars or any other expensive gadgets, I did treat myself to a JCB digger.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.

I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Our dreams go on forever, and our ambitions, and our hopes, and the great play of our ideas reaches for eternity. But we live in time. We die in time.

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

I've had dreams about tricks.

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.

As the daughter of an earl, he said, you could probably snare a duke, Margaret, if there is one available. They both laughed. If he is young, handsome, wealthy, kind, and inclined to love me to distraction, she said, then I will grab him. She laughed again. Provided I love him to distraction too, of course.

Ese es el inconveniente de los sueños, [...]No siempre se hacen realidad. Pero siempre aparecen nuevos sueños con los que reemplazar los antiguos. En el fondo somos una especie llena de esperanza.

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth

Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability?