Quotes About Aspiration

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, 'I can do that.' And these girls are screaming for him.

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

We always may be what we might have been.

If I could be half of what Mike Sweeney was, I'll be happy with it.

I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.

I really want to work with Mike Leigh.

As a kid, I think every kid grew up watching Jordan, that was every kid's idol... you just wanted to be like Mike.

If I play well for Holland, I am sure that I will have my chance for Milan.

I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.

I think its really cool when someone can be more than an actor or a musician. But theres no one who I know who has done it the way that I want to do it. I guess I aspire to be the first Miles.

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

One of my main people I look up to is Meek Mill.

I don't want to be just a lifestyle guru for the millennials.