Aspiring Quotes
148 Aspiring quotes by 127 unique authors
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The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
— Unknown Author
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Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers…
— Tim Brown
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When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer…
— Julius Lester
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other…
— Epictetus
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Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly…
— Diablo Cody
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that…
— Betsy Lerner
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The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
— Cheryl Strayed
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We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of…
— David Moyes
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A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.
— David Moyes
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With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
— Edward Carpenter
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[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through…
— Tom Bissell
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Surround yourself with those who are moving very quickly towards Unity. Be in the presence of those who are running forward. Besides the knowledge the…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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My birth experience is not right for everyone, but it was so right for me. I am changed because of that experience, i saw my…
— Ricki Lake
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I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
— Epictetus
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Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
— R C Sproul
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Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition…
— Paul Valery
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Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years…
— James Lovelock
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,…
— Barry B. Longyear
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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…
— Ellen Terry
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No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely…
— Albert Einstein
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I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you…
— Jeffery Deaver
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