Quotes About Aspiration

For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience.

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

My dad was in the Indian Army. He died in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994. After that, my mum and I settled in Noida. I went to Delhi Public School in Noida and then to Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi University. It was in college that I realised I wanted to be on the stage and in front of the camera.

Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.

I've always said I aspire to follow the likes of John Terry, Michael Dawson and Rio Ferdinand. I always watch what they do and try and learn from them.

I drive a Prius, but I dream of the Tesla.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.

As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.

I have a dream of playing 100 Tests.

The sadness comes because we turned aside to little things and in turning aside failed to reach our dreams — and also failed to reach the potential greatness that was in us.

When I was fifteen or sixteen I carried around in the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's 'Republic', front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. How much I wanted an older person to notice me carrying it and be impressed, to pat me on the shoulder and say... I didn't know what exactly. from: 'The Examined Life, Philosophical Meditations

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

we must also recognize that aspiration is a poor substitute for rational policymaking and ask whether we have accidentally conspired to undermine the very outcomes to which we aspire.

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.