Quotes About Aspiration

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I want to keep on improving as a player and become the best... one of the best midfielders in my position in the world.

As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.

Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.

I never thought about positions. All I wanted in life was to play for the country.

I always have positive intentions.

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

Like most female actresses, I am always aspiring to succeed and become a popular star, and my positive energy never dies out.

I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess.

We all possess the need to dream.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.

I must have had an early leaning toward business. Not that I had an understanding of this when I was 10 years old, but when you see what can be done, the possibilities, you want to be involved in something. You want to own it.

Our vision for Pinterest is to be a discovery engine for people to see the possibilities for their life, to make their life more meaningfully lived.

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.

The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it's too big of a dream.

I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.