Our friends are barometers of our own lives: We look to our BFFs to better understand how we’re doing ourselves. Our friends help us make sense of what we have, what we aspire to, and what we truly long for.
So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.
All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand.
I don’t aspire to have her career, or to be as talented as her, because I’d feel like I was shooting myself down in flames. If you have a parent who is that successful and set them as a benchmark, then everything is going to be disappointing.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
We need to change America’s image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don’t need their approval. I don’t aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
We don’t really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.
It shouldn’t matter what you’re into, how you look – you can achieve whatever you aspire to.
I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.
I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, ‘No daughter of mine will ever wash a man’s socks,’ and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.
I suddenly realised, hey, I’m not a lazy idiot, I’m an idler! It’s something to aspire to, it’s part of the creative process! That’s fantastic!
I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I’m going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
I definitely don’t aspire to writing that’s ‘timeless,’ whatever that means.
Every actor has his own identity. I don’t aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don’t treat it as something that’s an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
I’m not an evangelist Christian at all. I can’t try to convert anybody. It’s not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn’t have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.
I want people to see themselves in a person. I never want someone to aspire to be someone else.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn’t aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn’t something anyone had done yet.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
I guess that I have nothing more to aspire for.
Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith – particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
I don’t aspire to be like other drivers – I aspire to be unique in my own way.
I think obviously the media need to help promote the game and make it bigger so the younger girls have women role models to look up to and try and aspire to instead of just male footballers.
The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
However you can affect somebody positively is what you should aspire to do.
There isn’t really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That’s good enough for me.
A lot of people ask me, if I aspire to do films in Hollywood. If I get a chance, I would love to. But I feel that I owe it to my upbringing and the cinema I grew up on, to achieve something first in our film industry, and then venture out.
Only if you aspire for more will you achieve more.
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
I don’t aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian – that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
I realised at 13 or 14 when I said, OK, I wanted to be professional racing driver, there wasn’t anyone to look up to that I could aspire to or get inspiration from. But that didn’t stop me.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell’ is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I’ve ever heard. That’s what I aspire to.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes – golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
I didn’t aspire to be the CEO of Deloitte, but I aspired to be a leader in Deloitte.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
I want to be an incredible father, an incredible husband and take great care of my wife and all my kids and do what I love to do during the day to provide for them. That, ultimately, is what I see as being successful. I just aspire to be even half of how wonderful as my parents are.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
I don’t aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
I’m always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.
