You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist. . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.
The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
. . . a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.
I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.