Quotes About Aspiration

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I wanted to be a composer.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

Coming from a comprehensive school in Somerset, entertainment didn't seem like something that was open to you.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

Impossible doesn't concern me. My job is to dream.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.

It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, but I did not confide in my parents.

For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I'd like to say 'Have confidence and love yourself.'

I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.