Quotes About Aspiration

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.

Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk around in now. If you had Jordans, that was like a prize basically.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

As a player, you always want to win prizes.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

I wanted to go pro, but having the option to go to college was important for me.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.