Quotes About Aspiration

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

her dream of becoming a nurse was no ordinary yearning : it was the product of a desire as richly and completely imagined as a novel or a poem. It recalled for him what it meant to be driven to better yourself, to lay claim to a wider world.

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

and that's why it's so hard for them when they discover that this equality they've been told about is a carrot on a stick – something that's dangled in front of their noses to keep them going, but always kept just out of reach.

La tragedia de los hombres, decía Shaltiel, no estriba en que los perseguidos y los oprimidos aspiren a liberarse y a hacerse respetar. No. La maldad está en que los oprimidos, en lo más profundo de sus corazones, realmente sueñan en convertirse en opresores de sus opresores. Los perseguidos anhelan ser perseguidores. Los siervos sueñan con ser amos.

The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.

And once you reached the top, you would be able to see everything and feel such happiness it would be enough to never have worries in your life ever again.

i daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.

This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. "I

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

One goes to the magician, as one goes to the analyst, or any quack—to reaffirm one's own secret volitions. Not to be cured, not to be warned, not to be saved, but to become what one wants to be.