Ambition Quotes
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
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I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer-namely, that beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.'
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
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If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
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I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
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I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
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A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
