No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
Longing performs all things
