Quotes About Aspiring

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'

I'm very goal oriented.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It's as ludicrous as saying, "I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor." Either pick it up or don't. I don't want to hear about how your diaper's full. Take it off or stop talking about it.

For me, 'The Ultimate Fighter' has been massive. I think it is a fantastic vehicle to find the new talent of tomorrow.

The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.

Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count is in the triple digits. Never give up. Never, never, never give up.

I would like to give acting a go. I studied it for a long time; I just want to make sure when I do it I am able to put in as much effort as I do to modeling.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what it was they wanted, their fervor making up for their ignorance. His older self was cooler, more noncommittal, for he had learned that to publicize your goals means running the risk of falling short of them.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

Un jeune homme se présenta pour être rédacteur de l'air timide et inquiet qu'avait Lucien naguère. Lucien vit avec un plaisir secret Giroudeau pratiquant sur le néophyte les plaisanteries par lesquelles le vieux militaire l'avait abusé ; son intérêt lui fit parfaitement comprendre la nécessité de ce manége, qui mettait des barrières presque infranchissables entre les débutants et la mansarde où pénétraient les élus.