Quotes About Aspiration

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

Once you've reached the highest level, you always want to get back there. It's like, once you drive a Ferrari, you're not satisfied driving a Honda anymore.

I plan to take Hoods Up to another level of art once we've reached the level of doing so.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I'll keep reaching.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His career didn't really last too long, but he always had more passion for documentaries.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn't really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.