I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Some day I shall be President.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.