Quotes About Aspiration

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I want to be Gwyneth Paltrow when I grow up! She's been able to have such a great career, such a great family and she stays so humble and so real.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you're doing the career that you're on. I think it would be silly for that to change.

My goal stays the same of wanting to be an NBA point guard.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

No one will steal my son's American Dream.

I've always done that since I was in second grade watching the varsity quarterback at my father's high school - trying to steal reps as much as I can.

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

I have a drive to get more steals and improve my game and stats overall every year.

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

I'm not Zidane and not Rui Costa, but I have qualities - I can create assists - but I have to step up a level to become like those two.

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

It's cool to step on stage with your heroes.

I feel I have proved myself as one of the best receivers in college football from Day 1. I believe I can easily make that next step to the NFL and do the same.

What kid who was playing basketball didn't have the dream about going to the NBA? It's the biggest and final step.

If given a chance, I would love step into Akshay Kumar's shoes. He has a lovely family and his mind is always in the correct place.