Quotes About Aspiration

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

People are optimistic about the future.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

I'm very optimistic about the future.

I'm optimistic about the future.

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was 11, I knew what I wanted to do. My father really couldn't afford to spend $12 for a guitar for me, but he did. It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid's gift.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.