Quotes About Aspiration

There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.

Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.

Ilusión es el sinónimo llevado a la práctica de felicidad y es precisamente lo que deberías aspirar a conseguir. Es el curalotodo. Cuando te aconsejan que te dediques a tu «pasión» o a «lo que te haga feliz», en mi opinión se están refiriendo al mismo concepto: ilusión. Lo que nos devuelve a donde partimos. La pregunta que debes hacerte no es «¿Qué quiero?» o «¿Cuáles son mis objetivos?», sino «¿Qué me hace ilusión?».

It revealed to me that we only get what we desire most, and to apply myself with a laserlike focus upon a goal, task, or project.

Empieza pequeño, pero piensa a lo grande

Lo que hay que tener (Anagrama, 2010), de Tom Wolfe

Die Menschen träumen also eigentlich nicht davon, eine Million Euro auf dem Konto zu haben. Sie träumen vielmehr von einem völlig freien Leben, das dieses Geld ihnen ermöglichen soll. Die Frage ist also: Wie kann man frei und unabhängig sein, ohne eine Million zu haben?

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.

Queremos aspirar a lo grande. El infinito es nuestro amigo. El infinito es seguro. El infinito nos ofrece un lugar donde escondernos.

Así que quiero animar a la gente a que, en lugar de eso, aspire a lo pequeño. Que te sitúes en un punto medio, allí donde la gente pueda encontrarte. Que tengas algún tipo de interacción con una tribu, con un grupo donde no tengas un montón de botes salvavidas.»

Who you portray in your marketing isn't necessarily the only demographic who buys your product—it's often the demographic that most people want to identify with or belong to.

D: To buy all the things you want to have. NR: To do all the things you want to do, and be all the things you want to be. If this includes some tools and gadgets, so be it, but they are either means to an end or bonuses, not the focus.

Is that a dream, or a goal? Because a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably never happen. A goal is something you set a plan for, work toward, and achieve. I

I remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that very evening." Susan Cain

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

Be realistic and demand the impossible

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Be someone's muse.

Che cosa vuoi essere da grande? - si domanda da solo. Ci pensa un attimo e si risponde: - Vivo.

La mobilità sociale ha aperto a tutti la possibilità di aspirare a qualsiasi cosa, ma con ciò nessuno è più "predestinato" a nulla. È forse per questo che la gente è sempre più disorientata e incerta sul senso della propria vita.

Why did I practically flee from home when I was fifteen, to go and wash dishes all over Europe? Why, when I arrived in Asia, did I feel so much at home that I stayed there. The wish to get as far away as possible from the poverty-stricken world of my childhood? Perhaps.

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

I want to tell her that it's like flying with paper wings—that when you're a child, it seems possible—but when you grow up it just sounds doomed for failure.

Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back.