Quotes About Aspirations

I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. It's exhausting. You get cold.

In Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become? Michael Schrage writes: Successful innovators don't ask customers and clients to do something different; they ask them to become someone different. . . . Successful innovators ask users to embrace—or at least tolerate—new values, new skills, new behaviors, new vocabulary, new ideas, new expectations, and new aspirations. They transform their customers.

All beings begin their lives with hopes and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those goals. It is seldom so. Perhaps never.

Ichigo…there were so many things I wanted to do. Become a teacher…or an astronaut…or open a pastry shop…or go to Mr. Donuts and say "Give me one of each!" …or go to Baskin Robbins and say, "Give me one of each!" Sigh… if only there were five of me! Then I could be born in five different towns…and eat five different meals…and have five different jobs…and all five of me…could fall in love with the same guy.

Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

Few—very few—graduates before the mid-'70s sought out a 'business' education;

We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.       I

What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship?

They used to dream of steamer trunks and hounds with heirloom markings and lives that were both ever-changing and constant. Lives like forge fires.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

Thad kept his voice light, even though his heart had suddenly decided to set up a fierce boom-boom inside his chest. "Are you hoping to have a big family of your own someday?" "Of course! Big and boisterous." She laughed, the sound like creek water tripping over rocks. "I can't imagine family being any other way.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams where dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

Black respectability or "appropriate" behavior doesn't seem to matter. If anything, black achievement, black aspirations, and black success are construed as direct threats. Obama's presidency made that clear. Aspirations and the achievement of these aspirations provide no protection. Not even to the God-fearing. On

Look, we all have wishes; granted. But who has wishes granted?

Oh no, that's totally different. A nursing home list is a list of things you plan on reading and watching in a nursing home. A bucket list is more like . . . visit Nigeria, jump out of an airplane. A nursing home list is like, read The Western Coast and watch Pulp Fiction and listen to the latest Daft Punk album.

Every human being has a strategic role in God's purposes for the world. Every human being possesses a derived significance--grounded in God himself. And every human being is summoned to the highest of all possible aspirations--not to be God, but 'to be like' God himself. God is the standard for who we are and what our mission is in this world. By pursuing this loftiest of all goals, we move toward true flourishing as human beings.

Back then I was always looking ahead to who I wanted to be versus who I didn't realize I already was, and the wished-for me was most likely based on who other people seemed to be and the desire to have the same effect on others that they had had on me.

to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.

black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.

The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which they do not find.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,-'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.