Quotes About Aspiration

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

There's always room for growth. I feel like I'll never get to the point where I'm 100 percent happy with where I am with my career.

I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

From a personal point of view, I wouldn't have been happy with one cap but would always have been happy with two. I never counted on getting to 80.

It is such a special thing. As a kid growing up, you look at the Ballon d'Or and how it is the top of the top from a personal point of view.

I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.