“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”
Jodie Foster
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf”
Walter H. Pater
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.”
Albert Einstein
“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.”
Anna Jameson
“Not everybody aspires to be a bank president or a nuclear scientist, but everybody wants to do something with one's life that will give him pride and a sense of accomplishment.”
Ronald Reagan
“The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.”
