Eiichiro Oda Quotes
If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!
Quotes to Explore
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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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.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.
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The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!
