Quotes About Aspiration

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

I've never met Beckham, but I'd love to. I'm a massive fan of him. Hopefully we can cross paths and chat.

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

If my son wanted to join the NYPD, I'd want him to have the same pathway to the middle class as I did.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci are my political role models.

People like Paul Scholes were in my way at United - what are you going to do with that? You just look at him as an idol. I have watched him since I was a little kid. I couldn't have had a much better teacher.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

I always had dreams that I could be on television. I used to watch 'The Late Show' with my dad, and I'd make him pause the VHS whenever the audience laughed to explain jokes to me. But it's hard to just 'get into TV.'

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

My goal is to peak big in Rio because my goal is to win gold.

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.