Aspiration Quotes - Page 17

• I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how to commit to characters for a longer time, to confront the limits of my own capacities for attention and compassion. That's what a writing career does, in the best instance: it allows you to keep after what you can't do.

  Steve Almond

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

  Bradford Cox

  Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing.

  Wardell Milan

  Beautiful, Moments, Attractive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple lines of voice and a lot of text. On one hand, it's a reflection of the evolution of the technology. On the other hand, though, I think it's a reflection of our aspirations. We've always felt that the medium can get more and more cinematic, and I think when it follows the convention of Mass Effect 2 film, it grows more and more compelling. There's a hundred years of knowledge and learning in that space that we can then apply.

  Greg Zeschuk

  Couple, Character, Reflection

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Struggle, Long, World

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.

  Caio Fonseca

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with somebody, and to have the conversation be genuine. That's the best that can happen. Even if it only happens for 10 minutes in an episode. But I think what people forget is that you don't have to try to get a comedian to be funny. Comedians are innately funny. That the real challenge of talking to them is to get them talking about real things and then see where they need to be funny. And let them do that on their own volition.

  Marc Maron

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they want to lead their viewers and their readers. They value objective facts, and they attempt to transmit a comprehensive view of the world. And they do have values. And they do lead their viewers and their readers to certain conclusions. But it's different than such monopolies as Apple or Google which are dissecting information into these bits and pieces, which they're then transmitting to people. And it's about clicks.

  Franklin Foer

  People, Google, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

  Summer Rayne Oakes

  Fashion, Powerful, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don't think money's a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's so many women that need to be inspired, encouraged to go after their dreams, their goals, their aspirations. Because we all have that champion within us. It really is about your mindset and having the tools that you need, surrounding yourself with the right people, people who have been able to achieve some of the things that you want to achieve.

  Laila Ali

  Dream, People, Goal

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A real strategy is a coherent mix of policy and action designed to overcome a significant challenge. So a sensible employee might indeed say that they have no idea what the organization's strategy is - because it seems to have none. Senior managers' so-called "strategies" are heavy with aspirations and goals, but light on how resources and strengths will be combined to achieve them.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Senior, Real, Goal

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The single most damaging misconception about strategy is that it is a set of financial performance goals. The so-called "strategies" created by many managements are nothing more than three-to-five year financial performance forecasts. They are then labeled "strategy" and shipped off to the board of directors which goes through the motions of discussing how big the numbers are. Strategy is not your aspirations. Strategy is concerned with how you will arrange your actions and resources to punch through the challenges you face.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Goal, Challenges, Action

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A good strategy is not always successful, but even an "inappropriate" strategy may be an actual strategy. A "bad strategy" is one that doesn't even try to address an important challenge. Instead, it speaks of aspirations, visions of the future, lays out performance goals, or simply lists a bunch of unconnected actions.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Successful, Goal, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a certain taste, and that is connected to our aspirations for our brand. We pride ourselves on making character-centric movies. If I had to say what's the most important thing this company does, it's creating characters that stay with the audience long after they leave the theater.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Character, Pride, Long

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• My favorite Scripture is Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." God is our strength; his love, demonstrated through us, can move mountains and change hearts. Being a Christian is actually a competitive edge; provided that you place your faith first above even your professional aspirations. Even if in the past you've compromised and slid partway down that slippery slope, it's still possible to find your way back. If I've learned anything, it's this: to get where you want to go, you first have to become the person God wants you to be.

  DeVon Franklin

  Christian, Moving, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

  Sean Penn

  Guy, Energy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Political, Confusing, Agendas

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• Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

  Paul Davies

  Crazy, Development, Want

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• Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Attitude, Law, Democracy

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• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Iowa, Creative

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

  Will Ferrell

  Toms

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• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Hate, Voice, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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