Quotes About Aspiration

It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.

I believe now that I can win tournaments, and before I was just hoping.

I think tournaments are starting to become a bit more open with more players able to fight, and I want to be part of that bright future.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I'm playing instead of just content with making a quarter.

I think I will have a lot of chance for big tournaments, especially grand slams.

What got me to where I am today is a hunger and a desire to win tournaments, and all the trappings that came with that.

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.

I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I had a dream, and that dream kind of became a reality when I started taking steps toward it. You don't even realize what you're achieving as you're achieving it.

My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.