Quotes About Aspiration

You always have to dream big and think big.

I have to think big.

We only live once, so I want to think big.

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

I want to do a lot of things in my career and keep building on my talent, learn more about the tactics both with the ball and without it in the final third.

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

I became third in the U.S. as a junior pro surfer.

I haven't lost that quest and that thirst to do something great.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

It's rare, in my opinion, that we get to see someone who is in his late thirties, with a wife and children who he has to support, realizing that what he is doing is not fulfilling him in a way that he really wants. He knows what will and he goes after it.

The 'Damsels' crew was low-budget, young people who were doing their first thing almost. A lot of it. It felt like Pied Piper or Rumpelstiltskin or whatever: it was me and people thirty years younger or more. But it was great; it was really fun.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.