Quotes About Aspiration

Sólo dejaban huella en el mundo los hombres audaces, los rebeldes con alteza de miras, no las hormigas laboriosas que ascendían por escalafón.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Yes, Mr Latimer, most of us go through life without knowing what we want of it. But Dimitrios, you know, was not like that. Dimitrios knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted money and he wanted power.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

Though we can hardly understand it, and Wilberforce himself never quite made sense of it during his lifetime, he now entertained the outrageous idea of using this opportunity to become one of Yorkshire County's two representatives in Parliament, something that was effectively impossible.

Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration towards truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a scientist without that profound faith.

A cultura é memória muscular institucional, que não se baseia em como a organização aspira a atuar, mas em como realmente atuou no passado.

A platform pivot refers to a change from an application to a platform or vice versa. Most commonly, startups that aspire to create a new platform begin life by selling a single application, the so-called killer app, for their platform. Only later does the platform emerge as a vehicle for third parties to leverage as a way to create their own related products. However, this order is not always set in stone, and some companies have to execute this pivot multiple times.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham

if you're telling yourself that learning to do something differently is "fake" or "inauthentic," it may simply be a convenient way of rationalizing your lack of aspiration.

One good thing about aspiration is that it's quite easy to tell whether or not you have it. If you're not actually taking steps to do something, then you don't really want to do it, no matter what you're telling yourself. Your aspiration is insufficient. Period.

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up.

Dreams? What's the point of that?

didn't need to stay on the ground like an apprentice with kit-fluff still behind his ears.