Quotes About Aspiration

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

A big moment for me came when 'Singin' in the Rain' came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer - that's what I wanted to do.

Rain - his power and charisma onstage is impressive, and I hope to have that one day.

All the support and opportunity started and then Le Mans became the pipe dream, the thing to aim for, the end of the rainbow.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

The bar raises as you go.

When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

Ralph Lauren is about creating stories, creating concepts that consumers want to live in. We are about creating dreams.

I had worked in PR for Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren and I always wanted to do something in design - and I really wanted to do jewelry.

What we've done now sits with those films that inspired me as a kid, and I hope there is a kid like myself today who is watching 'Wreck-It Ralph,' and he or she is inspired the way I was inspired when I was 5 years old, and now they'll pursue this crazy dream.

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina' started playing. The minute I saw it, I told my mother, 'I wish to accomplish it. I desire to be on TV.'

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

I am a big fan of Sabyasachi and I would definitely love to walk the ramp for him some day.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I ran for president in 1996.