Quotes About Aspiration

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.

I am a bit of a 'dreamer,' so I love fantasizing about utopian futures, and I also love the way you can explore big concepts in sci fi.

I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.

I've chronicled a time when I was 17, 18, utterly terrified that you're not gonna get anywhere with whatever you want to do. It's that fear and claustrophobia that I think comes to most people living in small towns. But I am lucky, because I just knew that music was my thing.

While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

As a child I was on the sets all the time, even during vacation. Had I known I would be an actor, I'd have groomed and trained myself better.

We want to be successful everywhere. But if not, at least we can go on vacation to London.

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

I would like to see another Johnny Valentine.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.

I left the valleys at 16 years old to go and pursue a career.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

Anurag Sir is someone I have always looked up to and hoped to work with, like many other actors. It's a tremendous opportunity to be collaborating with him on my first film; I really feel fortunate. His conviction in me is very valuable.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.