Quotes About Aspiration

The courage to dream always precedes the capital needed to finance the dream.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

In addition to a job description designed around your current employment, develop what you would consider to be the ultimate job description. This is for your eyes only. The goal of this exercise is to help you identify the niche in which you would feel most productive and consequently most successful. Dream a little.

at least once in my life make something that would go around the world, create a lick that guitarists everywhere would play, be number one in America, be heard at weddings, bar mitzvahs, births, funerals, be adapted into the repertoire of brass bands in the north of England, and make my mum and dad proud.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

To lean into this aspiration, you must confront the fact that "whiteness" is a social ego as void of inherent identity as the personal ego, and you have identified with it as much as your very own name, but without being willing to name it.

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs!

Dreaming is good to do when you're sleeping. But as long as we're awake, nobody wants to go hungry.

Dreaming is good to do when you're sleeping. But, as long as we're awake, nobody wants to go hungry.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Perhaps most women did. Perhaps most women had unfulfilled life left in them, and sought a way to use it.

I really think if I do not get the diamond tiara my whole trip to London will be quite a failure

You need to aim, to achieve.

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

I was playing division three basketball and I wanted to find a way to work in basketball full-time. The way to do that was not in division three right away; you'd have to be a part-time assistant or whatever. So, I made the decision to transfer to Kentucky. Just so I could get my feet wet and maybe get a job in D-1.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

With every film I've made, 'Whale Rider' included, I've had a vision that was far bigger than the budget allowed.

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.