Quotes About Aspiration

I am an architect of days that have not happened yet.

They didn't take anything I did seriously; it was all some trivial, mildly annoying side activity that I insisted on for some reason, having nothing to do with real life. I couldn't challenge or contradict this view, even to myself, because I really didn't know how to do anything real. I didn't know how to move to a new city, or have sex, or have a real job, or make someone fall in love with me, or do any kind of study that wasn't just a self-improvement project.

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

aspiring fashionista, a dedicated jogger, a world explorer, an enthusiastic foodie, and a grateful three-year

She wants to stay right here, with all of those sumptuous plans still in front of her, forever.

Why is it 'housewife'? What would I call myself if we lived in a hotel? Nobody ever puts down just 'wife,' or even just 'mother.' If you haven't got a job, and you don't keep house, then you aren't anything. apparently. I wish I was something else. I mean, besides keeping house, I wish I was a designer, for instance. The children would think a lot more of me, if I was a designer. Maybe Tom would, too.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

If you want sucess,you must pursue it.

I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

Good aims not always make good books.

I will write my story for my better self.

Every plan had its flow. But sometimes, living in the future was damned cool. Even if she couldn't get a rocket car.

If she were to be Exalt, one of these arrogant cryptic beings, it semed unfair that she did not have wings.

External goals cannot hit internal targets.

I decided to give more to the goal than to the limitations.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.