Quotes About Aspiration

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

I don't think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can't say I didn't get it.

I am hungry, I want to achieve something with Chelsea.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I'm not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way—that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere

But even as he was thinking this, he knew he'd have to aim smaller. That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.

He never had the talent, just the hard wish.

It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town. The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would-and did-detest. 'Should I remove my soul before I come inside?' Her first line upon arrival.

Hadley to play the role of passive partner to his ambitions, but

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

We all want to grasp the stars. Nieroda came closer than most. But like the rest of us, she overreached and drew back fingers webbed with damnation.

We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that'.

Mi madre era de clase media, mi padre de clase baja, yo de clase gratuita, ahora soy de clase soñadora.

If she had seen Ben, nothing would have made her believe that practically every apartment contained a family, a Bible, and a dream that one day enough could be scraped from those meager Friday night paychecks to make Brewster Place a distant memory.

In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand still.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

I plainly lacked Wilkinson's doggedness in pursuing those commanders who might help me up in the world.