Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.

If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need.

My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it's not easy taking big steps and saying, 'I'm going to be a professional dancer'.

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It’s golden.” With barely a breath, she added, “Now let’s find out if we’re compatible, shall we?

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.