Quotes About Aspiration

autobiographical novel. He fancied himself

I am not nostalgic for a country which doesn't yet exist on a map." [...] I am not nostalgic. Belonging does not interest me. I had once thought that it did. Until I examined the underpinnings. One is mislead when on looks at the sails and majesty of tall ships instead of their cargo.

Puede que eso fuera la esclavitud del futuro, atar a un negro libre a sus anhelos de blanco.

But I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

The more I strive for them the more they utterly elude me

The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Maybe he didn't want that life after all, starting over broke, hailing a cab in a busy intersection filled with jockeying junior executives, arms aloft, bodies smartly spinning to cover every compass point. What did he want that was not posthumous? He stared into space. He understood what was missing, the predatory impulse, the sense of large excitation that drove him through his days, the sheer and reeling need to be.

She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.

Youth is about promise.

I'm a song writer, professional dreamer...

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.

The first task in building a compelling story world is to create hope.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

His weakness was a thirst for glory but none for power.

The hero must want something that is difficult and perhaps even frightening to achieve.

We must tell our customers how great their life can look if they buy our products and services

offering a vision for how great a customer's life could be if they engage your products or services.

And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

It's true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story.