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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss. -- Plato
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper. -- Victoria Laurie
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. -- John Leonard
Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace. -- Charlene Spretnak
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity. -- Meagan Good
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. -- William Kennedy
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse. -- Rudy Giuliani
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 be angels men rebel. -- Alexander Pope
I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.' -- Joshua Malina
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights. -- James Joseph Sylvester
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' -- Ludwig van Beethoven
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. -- Major Taylor
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
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. -- John Legend
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. -- Jim Harrison
Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.' -- John Burdett
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 always aspiring and going beyond its strength. -- Michel de Montaigne
Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up. -- Patrick Modiano
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. -- Sergei Eisenstein
For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds. -- Ryan Guzman
All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them. -- Patricia Polacco
The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something. -- Nirmalya Kumar
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. -- India de Beaufort
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life. -- Yuvraj Singh
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts. -- Sri Chinmoy
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 I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. -- John Piper
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. -- Walter Kirn
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
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. -- James Lafferty
Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do. -- Nick Cannon
Stop aspiring. Start doing. -- Nathan Lowell
Tis immortality to die aspiring. -- George Chapman
Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity. -- Rebecca Mead
To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself. -- Abby Brammell
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa! -- Tom Stoppard
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Precious and spacious The aspiring heart has to remain Always. -- Sri Chinmoy
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. -- Alexander Downer
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. -- Harriet Martineau
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO. -- Angela Ahrendts
Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator. -- Augusto Pinochet
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. -- Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period. -- Matthew Reilly
A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. -- David Moyes
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. -- George Chapman
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. -- Alexander Lebedev
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. -- Michael Moore
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. -- Shekhar Kapur
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount. -- Robert Montgomery
My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect. -- Erica Schroeder
I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. -- Jack Black
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. -- Michel de Montaigne
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. -- Colley Cibber
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you. -- Multatuli
Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within. -- Tory Burch
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players. -- Kevin Durant
To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God. -- Radhanath Swami
Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her. -- AnnaLynne McCord
An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes. -- Sri Chinmoy
Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else. -- Philip DeFranco
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. -- Talcott Parsons
For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny. -- Bill Burr
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. -- Anne Fortier
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness -- Leo Tolstoy
The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer. -- Renata Scotto
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. -- Howard Gordon
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. -- Joanna Baillie
The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy. -- John F. Kerry
A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. -- Swami Vivekananda
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. -- Pema Chodron
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. -- Lauryn Hill
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. -- Keith Hernandez
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. -- Tom Robbins
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. -- Edward Carpenter
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance. -- Arianna Huffington
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. -- Sunny
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model. -- Linda Ronstadt
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. -- Ricky Gervais
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. -- Jacques Barzun
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then. -- Nicholas Jarecki
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. -- Edna Buchanan
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
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
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. -- Gene Weingarten
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. -- Diablo Cody
I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about. -- Kevin Durant
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. -- Winston Churchill
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring. -- Oscar Wilde
You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read. -- Khaled Hosseini
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect. -- Robert Genn
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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 human. -- Clarice Lispector
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging. -- Harold Speed
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema. -- Anurag Kashyap
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money. -- Martin Parr
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it. -- F. Paul Wilson
I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers to express themselves through their photos. -- Nigel Barker
Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia. -- Robert Brady
My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more. -- Jarod Kintz
You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you. -- Toba Beta
When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting! -- Diablo Cody
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors. -- Alexandra Patsavas
Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort. -- John Burdett
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown. -- George Eliot
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world. -- Urvashi Vaid
Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise. -- Andrew Carnegie
We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us. -- Lauryn Hill
The only piece of advice I would give to the aspiring players is that no amount of practice is enough. You need to keep at it, no matter how successful you are. -- Satnam Singh Bhamara

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