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• I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion
  If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter.
  For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Fashion, Matter, Today

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• Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

  Satya Nadella

  Perseverance, Three, Microsoft

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• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judgment, Wit, Admission

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Musician, Beginners

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• I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

  Jim Harrison

  People, Boredom, Watches

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

  Ian Thorpe

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

  "Ian Thorpe comes out as gay in Parkinson interview" by Nadia Khomami, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

  Lee Clow

  Dog, Car, Pet

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• A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Pain, Ignorance

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hypocrisy, Contradicting, Always Wrong

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• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Boxing

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• He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.149

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• Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Technology, Engineering

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Leadership, Simple, Profound

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• Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.

  Hal Elrod

  Believe, Thinking, Becoming The Best

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• I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.

  William Ashworth

  Nature, Rain, Reality

  William Ashworth (1978). “The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness”

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• Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Religious, Profound, Paradise

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Party, Reason

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.27

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• Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

  Peter York

  House, Missing, Serious

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• Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mutual Support, Choices, Mind

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Sports, Baseball, Teacher

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• You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important

  Regina Agyare

  Role Models, Important, Roles

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• For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teacher, Stars, Fire

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• We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Bidding, Done

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.82, Everyman's Library

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• Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Failure, Men, Height

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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