Quotes About Aspiration

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.

Do what I will never do.

Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

I've always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific." – Chloe Traeger

There are so many of us out there, trying to turn Spyrograph flowers into rocket ships.

Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem.

Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.

A fan of L.A. Law reruns and Law & Order, she'd put lawyer down on the list, hung up the phone, and taken the LSAT. Four years of night school and a shitload of student loans later, she was an attorney.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Think like the person you intend to become.

How would the person I'd like to be, do the things I'm about to do?

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.