Quotes About Aspiration

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.