Virginia Postrel Quotes

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

I studied journalism at Binghamton University, even interning for NBC's longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation, I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.

I'm very career-driven.

I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

I was going to college for broadcast journalism because I knew whatever career path I would take, I knew I wanted to be talking to as many people as possible and inspiring as many people as possible, particularly girls. When I was in college, I was like, 'I know I'm going to be on camera a lot when I'm older if I fall into my dream job.'

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

All I ever know is what I want to do next.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

My motivation is that I try to get myself to a certain point, and I want to win as much as I can in my career.

Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

I don't think Bollywood is my ultimate destination; I believe it's a part of my journey.