Peter Morgan Quotes

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

Peter Morgan

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• I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Comfortable
  • Favorite
  • Naked

• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • California
  • Grew
  • Phoenix

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Ambition

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Ambition
  • More
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• 'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Commitment
  • Ambition
  • Keeper

• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Different
  • Ambition
  • Champion

• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Ambition

• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim
  • Balance
  • Helping
  • Ambition

• I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Limits

• What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

  

  Philip Wylie
  • Stupid

• If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Exercise
  • Busy

• Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Ambition