Quotes About Aspiration

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

Never be afraid to chase your dream at any age.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on. I didn't see this at first. And for a while after I knew it, I pretended I didn't. I didn't want it to be true.

Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.