Will Poulter Quotes

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

You don't want to dream too big in case it doesn't happen.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.