There are many mediocre entertainers who don’t aspire to much more than fame and glory. It’s very easy to have them as your role models because there aren’t as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.
I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That’s what I want from my art, that’s what I aspire to.
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama’s course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people’s collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn’t usually happen without a plan.
I don’t idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson – character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leadership role and really want those positions. But then over time, as they advance, they become less confident and don’t think they can attain those roles.
It wasn’t something that I really wanted or had dreamed about. Because of your socioeconomic status or your culture, you think you can’t aspire to be an actress, and to participate in this medium, that sounds like a fantasy.
Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.
It’s very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business – what we aspire to – and a strategy for achieving it.
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
When I was a kid, the women like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were paving the way for female players in the States. Things like that are important so girls realise there is a future for them if they want to play. It is something they can aspire to, to be not just a hobby.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
I don’t want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.
No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Every good film is a bit like a dream, when you come away from it. That’s what you should aspire to, rather than some social document. I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience.
When I signed ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ a lot of directors told me that I shouldn’t be doing the role of a mother so early in my career. But I went ahead, as I aspire to do challenging roles.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
Aishwarya has been a huge inspiration and I aspire to be like her.
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.
We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.
When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that’s what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.
I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don’t want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I’d like to say ‘Have confidence and love yourself.’
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always believed in doing my best, that one should aspire to be No. 1.
I don’t aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I’d rather focus on honesty than popularity.
Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
So I had to change my mental outlook from, ‘wow, this is Lee Haney, the icon we are all trying to aspire to,’ to, ‘this is the guy I am trying to beat.’ I thought, ‘I can’t be in awe of this guy because, if that is your attitude then you’re not going to have much chance of winning.’
Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while ‘Men Behaving Badly’ remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony’s eternal adolescence?
There’s no Democratic and Republican seats or gyms or coffee shops at the Supreme Court. Every American should be able to celebrate the fact that we aspire to nine justices who are looking to defend our rights and to defend the Constitution, not to advance policy preferences.
Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don’t know if I always make it. I work very hard.
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you’re not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
I try to combine my work with my family, that’s what I aspire to. I don’t say that’s the only thing. It’s not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
I want to aspire to titles. Liverpool will always be a big club, but we are not at the level of Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, or Arsenal.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That’s what I aspire to do. That’s what I do best.
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.
Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That’s what I aspire to look like.
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.
The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British – I’m pasty white as well.
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well – to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
