Aspiring Quotes

148 Aspiring quotes by 127 unique authors

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously… — Nigel Lythgoe
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. — Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is… — Michel de Montaigne
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date. — Susan Orlean
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure… — John Piper
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to… — Alexander Pope
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say,… — Jason Reitman
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and… — Martin Filler
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world… — Anurag Kashyap
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read… — Khaled Hosseini
The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever… — Thomas Wolfe
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant… — Cormac McCarthy
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be… — Clarice Lispector
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness — Leo Tolstoy
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to… — Augusten Burroughs
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period. — Matthew Reilly
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the… — Jim Butcher
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much… — Jim Butcher
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of… — Samuel Adams
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New… — Walter Kirn
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be… — T.H. White

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