Quotes About Aspiration

She'd rouse me out of bed all hours of the night and I'd wait in the hall. They were mostly soldiers and sailors and merchant mariners, or businessmen down on convention. This is one lousy life, Mamma said, but I'm doing the best I can with what Ive got. I wish I could afford to send you to some kind of business school so you could learn to type.—She never did but I never blamed her. For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to me, the businessmen.

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.

Here's a fact: Some people want to live more Than others do.

You have to dream big to get big.

Branch by branch, Rowdy and I climbed toward the top of the tree, to the bottom of the sky.

In all those stories, I could fly.

I wanted to run faster than the speed of sound, but nobody,no matter how much pain they're in, can run that fast.

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

Megeara wants to find it. (Arik) And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't have. (Kat)

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.

The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!