Quotes About Ambition

Tu sei la mia amica geniale, devi diventare la più brava di tutti, maschi e femmine.

Piénsalo. Una mujer separada, con dos hijas y tus ambiciones, ha de tener en cuenta la realidad y decidir a qué puede renunciar y a qué no. No hubo palabra de esta última frase que no me disgustara.

Lila always knew what she wanted and got it; I don't want anything, I'm made of nothing. I hoped to wake in the morning without desires. Once I was emptied—I imagined—the affection of Antonio, my affection for him will be enough.

Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.

school. At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn't say so clearly to myself I was glad to be there with Gigliola Spagnuolo rather than with Lila. In some very secret part of myself I looked forward to a school where she would never enter, where, in her absence, I would be the best student, and which I would sometimes tell her about, boasting. But immediately I began to falter, many of the others proved to be better than me. I ended up with Gigliola in a kind

At those moments I took it for granted that there was not and never would be a manuscript of Lila's. I had always overestimated her, nothing memorable would emerge from her - something that reassured me and yet truly upset me. I loved Lila. I wanted her to last. But I wanted it to be I who made her last. I thought it was my task. I was convinced that she herself, as a girl, had assigned it to me.

Dass er niemand ist. Und für einen, der niemand ist, gibt es nichts Wichtigeres, als jemand zu werden. Daraus folgt, dass dieser Signor Sarratore ein unzuverlässiger Mensch ist.«

Segno che forse Lila aveva ragione: la gente di quella risma bisognava combatterla conquistandosi una vita superiore, di quelle che loro non potevano nemmeno immaginare.

And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

That he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

As we talked I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

Pozorovala jsem, naslouchala a vyklánÄ›la jsem se z prostoru toho, ?ím jsme se s Lilou v dÄ›tství chtÄ›ly stát a ?ím jsem se já skute?nÄ› stala.

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

My entire life would be reduced merely to a petty battle to change my social class.

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what

Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.

Hábleles de tú a las estrellas.

Hacia mucho que su líder Luis N. Morones se había quitado el overol para hacerse dueño de edificios, casas, terrenos, queridas...

Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel.