Quotes About Aspiration

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

It wasn't until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress.

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.

The goal for the top American isn't the top twenty - it's top ten, top five, number one in the world.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning twenty-five pounds at Arsenal, and you have to stay in every Thursday, Friday, you know it is hard.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.

I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.