Quotes about ambition
ambition orange glasses
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass. W. C. Fields
ambition reality desire
A reality shaped around your own desires -- there is something sociopathic in that ambition. Zadie Smith
ambition racism world
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism. Zora Neale Hurston
ambition games exciting
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
ambition school building
I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge. That's something that I'm actively engaged in conversations about now with my reps: What's out there that I can really either put myself on tape for, or meet with the director for and read for? How do we do that? We're now at the end of the Star Trek reboot trilogies and whether we are going to do another movie remains to be seen, and so I feel like I'm at the end of this cycle that began with me coming out of school and auditioning and building my way up. Zachary Quinto
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. Zach Wamp
ambition conflict resolve
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. Zbigniew Brzezinski
ambition have-a-great-day action
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. Zig Ziglar
ambition self self-knowledge
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! William Hague
ambition player being-the-best
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. William Hazlitt
ambition names excellence
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
ambition incentives
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
ambition tolls may
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. William Davenant
ambition mind
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
ambition america fit
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") Wendell Berry
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Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. Walter Raleigh
ambition lunch smoking
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion. W. Somerset Maugham
ambition simple thinking
I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple. Yoko Ono
ambition past each-day
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. William Osler
ambition law agency
The one governmental agency that has no ambition. William O. Douglas
ambition greatness intrigue
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray
ambition college one-day
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. Yash Chopra
ambition way coast
The only way to coast is downhill.
ambition certain ifs
If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.