Quotes About Aspiration

Dear God, please, please let me get into UVA.

used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way it was supposed to. Destiny,

But I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

it again and again, as many times as my mother could stand. Just like Kim MacAfee before me, I wanted to wear mascara and

Y hagas lo que hagas, por mucho que lo intentes, no puedes dejar de soñar.

I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.

Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.

The wife has begun planning a secret life. In it, she is an art monster. She puts on yoga pants and says she is going to yoga, then pulls off onto a country lane and writes in tiny cramped writing on a grocery list She thinks she should go off her meds maybe so as to write more fluidly. Possibly this is not a good idea. But only possibly.

But Wishing is addictive.

For a man who could have anything he wanted... why do I have the sense that you rarely get what you want?

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

I believe in a higher power, and I don't think She'd want us to accept mediocrity. I don't mean that everyone needs to dream of space, or scientific breakthroughs, or changing the whole world. Just that everyone should do what they love and do it as best they can. Whether you're surfing, teaching, or collecting trash—and want to be—hold your head high and kick ass.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.