Ambition Quotes
-
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
-
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
-
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.
-
Pride went before, ambition follows him.
-
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
-
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
-
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
-
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
-
Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."
-
I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.
-
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
-
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
-
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
-
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
-
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
-
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
-
L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.
-
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
-
Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
-
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
-
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
-
My major ambition is just to stay relevant.
-
By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.
-
I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.
