Quotes About Aspiration

I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.

I was just 15 years old when I came from Chandigarh, which was a very small town then. I became part of the entertainment field after winning the Young Miss India contest.

I know how difficult it is to come from a small town and make a name for yourself.

I could relate to a band from a small town, talking about wanting to get out.

My dream was to be a hero in a film. I came from a small town and didn't know where to start. I dreamt that people would sing songs featuring me.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

When I was smaller, I always looked up to Zidane, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

It was always my intention to go with a smaller club. I reckoned I'd get more of a chance.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

When I got out of the Navy... all those hotshots, the guys that were really smart and attractive and all that, guess where they were going? They were going into advertising. That was the hot thing then.

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

I've got to work harder and smarter to get to the place where I truly belong.

I never let anyone tell me anything growing up and I knew I wanted to be a singer. I would say to every single person that entered my life, 'I'm going to be a singer, I'm going to be on billboards and I'm going to smash it!' You have to put it into the universe, you've got to be positive and not let anything hold you back.

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.