Quotes About Ambition

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

I always wanted to run a major label, and I feel like I got the skills to do that. The one thing about me is that I won't sit behind a desk the whole time - I'll go to the clubs and see what's hot.

No matter what, all I want to do is win. I don't care what anybody says, any media outlet, anybody says as a person; the one thing they can't say is that I don't want to win.

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.

Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.

The one thing disappointing I had coming out of college was not playing in the Rose Bowl.

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

The one thing you realize if you're going to be successful - no matter where you grew up, no matter what your educational level is - A. You can succeed, but B. The only way you're going to succeed is by outworking everyone else.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

The one thing I thought I would never be able to do was sing on television.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom's death, I took a long look at my life and I asked myself what was the one thing that I hadn't done that I had really wanted to do. And it was to write and direct a film.

You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.