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aspiring QUOTES

1 " 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 money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.
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 good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. "

― Jim Butcher , Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)

2 " Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress. "

― John Marmysz , The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress

3 " One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is " Don't try to be clever." And, " Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know. "

4 " Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness "

― Leo Tolstoy

5 " Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach. "

― , Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

6 " Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain. "

7 " I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it "

― Terry Lander , Life Through the Eyes of an Insider: 101 Poems to Help You Understand Life Better

8 " In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. "

― Alexander Pope , An Essay on Man

9 " I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty.

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 money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.

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 good of others--even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Faith is a power of its own, and one even more elusive and difficult to define than magic. "

― Jim Butcher , Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)

10 " Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to. "

― Alan W. Watts

11 " There is no such thing as an " aspiring writer" . You are a writer. Period. "

12 " I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. "

― Rick Riordan

13 " I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. "

14 " 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 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. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do. "

― Walter Kirn

15 " At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring. "

― Scott Cherney

16 " Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time. "

― Amber Hurdle , The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur

17 " There's just one advice for an aspiring writer write. "

18 " Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going. "

― Chris Matakas , The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

19 " Western societies want men to be upstanding, proactive citizens who take responsibility for themselves, who work with others to improve their communities and nation as a whole. The irony is that society is not giving the support, guidance, means, or places for these young men even to be motivated or interested in aspiring to these goals. In fact, society - from politics to the media to the classroom to our very own families - is a major contributor to this demise because it is inhibiting young men's intellectual, creative, and social abilities right from the start. And the irony is only compounded by the fact that men play such a powerful part in society, which means they are effectively denying their younger counterparts the opportunity to thrive. "

― Philip G. Zimbardo , Man Disconnected: How technology has sabotaged what it means to be male

20 " Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations. "