Unrealistic Ambitions Quotes

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

When your dreams are close to coming true, it does not feel real at first.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.

I wanted to be a doctor originally; that was my realistic dream, because I knew how to get there. Being a pop star was my wild dream, a fantasy - there was no direct route.

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami.