Quotes About Aspiration

Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.

Dreams are essential to life.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life."

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.