Quotes About Aspiration

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.

I would want to own property in Bespin.

I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I think a lot of guys think they can do voice acting, but when you hear the pros and they are so great... that's a little intimidating.

A lot of my friends who were bigger than me at school got into academies at professional clubs but none are pros now. And none of them has put on an England shirt.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

It's an exciting prospect playing in the NBA, one that every player wants. When you are little you dream about it.

I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

We are and always will be the party of prosperity, not envy.

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

I don't really want to be cocky when I say this, but I really feel I can be one of the best rim protectors in the league, you know, as a rookie.

I don't want to protest. I want to get into power.