Quotes About Aspiration

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I wanted to be a painter.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

All I ever wanted to do was wear Jordans. I think there was only one or two pair I never had.

I remember one time I went to Craigslist to find something; that's how bad I wanted it. It was a pair of Raf Simons - this was like 2010. But Raf said he was going to make them for me.

I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

Playing for Pakistan was such a huge dream.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

So, yeah, if I could play anyone, I think it would be Black Panther.

Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

My idea is to create something that is at par with everything that is around the world or Hollywood.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

I knew that I wanted to be in parallel cinema and do meaningful films.