Quotes About Aspiration

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.

Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

As a child in awe of my policeman father, I wanted to grow up to be a cop.

At 25, I had lost my job due to the economy, and my family wanted me to become a policeman or firefighter, but I knew there were other things out there for me. I sent some pictures to New York City and a model agency called and said, 'Where have you been?'

After I was cast in the acclaimed film 'Khuda Ke Liye,' I thought it would open up film avenues for me in Pakistan and, maybe, even internationally. When that didn't happen, I decided to use TV as a means of polishing my craft.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents did - but we rarely talk about those who are already in work and want to progress.

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

I have done masters in Political Science but deep down in my heart I wanted to be a dancer.

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

My childhood dream was never to be a politician.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

On one level, there's an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it's just a great shirt with lots of colors.

Polo is about the aspirational lifestyle of the sporty person, on and off the field.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.