Quotes About Aspiration

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.

I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

Eu intreb:Cine e cel ce-a trecut inainte? Pentru eu vreau sa trec si mai inainte!

One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later. The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form. The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest historical energies.

Duhamel calls the movie "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles.

I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

the ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.

In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge.

I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.

sell those to his manager at Haltek. Jobs was able to get his first car, with his father's help, when he was fifteen. It was a two-tone Nash Metropolitan that his father had fitted out with an MG engine. Jobs didn't really like it, but he did not want to tell his father that, or miss out on the chance to have his own car. "In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like

By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things

When a really great dream shows up," Page later said, "grab it!

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for baby snakes

It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.

I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.