James Cook Quotes
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a good driver.
-
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
-
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
-
I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
-
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
-
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
-
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
-
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
-
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
-
I have an Oscar on my mantel.
-
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
-
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
-
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
-
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
-
I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
-
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
-
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
-
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
-
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
-
The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives, would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank. They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt.
-
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
-
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
-
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
