Our mind is a wonderful place, people, aspirations, desires & things can walk-in any time, but it takes longer time for ideas to enter, due to the effort & change required to make–up our mind about not only allowing the ideas in our mind but also implementing it.

I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.

...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased to conflict with my conscience, because my conscience was calling me out into space, and was not much interested in what was happening on earth.

“I have always been career oriented, with an entrepreneurial spirit burning inside of me. I have big ideas. You have to believe big, think big, for big things to happen. I think a lot of people have aspirations, but execution is the key. We execute.”

“[Details of that extravagance are drawn from Kim's former lackeys.] For all the immense privileges enjoyed by ... those who ruled the Soviet Union and China, they did not aspire to a live a life completely alien to their countrymen, ... They did not show signs of a consuming desire to emulate the tastes of a jet-set billionaire.”

“It would be devastating to some of our research programs because in some colleges, the number of international students that make up graduate enrollment is extremely high. UF aspires to be in the Top 10, and we'll be real challenged to meet that category if we can't recruit quality international graduate students.”

“This baroque dichotomy between their sublime aspirations of judicial excellence and the ridiculous rules to which they have to conform while they pirouette to the demands of politicians and titans of the bar must bend the minds of the best and idealistic judicial candidates like a pretzel. We are destroying the very institution we are trying to save.”

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

“The grand sanctuary, built in 1964, was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center. It is a dramatic, awe-inspiring space, but hard to use by a congregation, so a smaller sanctuary was built in 1979. Together, the two connected buildings create a portrait of Jewish aspirations in the late-20th century.”

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.