Quotes About Ambition

Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.

What's the point of living if you don't try to do things better?

It's never too late to do what you want to do.' Remember that.

People dream, despite whatever supposed realities may be before them.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick.

it is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.

I had hope for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it.

I knew what she was asking, of course. I'd been asking it myself a moment before. But I wasn't sure how you went from dreams to reality without the magic leaking out - or becoming too wild and powerful.

The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine

You have to prove to New York that you really want to live here.

Sometimes wanting isn't enough, Alek. You know that.

Bound for Glory

There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

in every organization everyone rises to the level at which they become paralyzed with fear.

If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

If all you do at work is hope to survive, your day can't be much fun. We're all working too hard. Putting in more hours than we'd like, nervous about the future, uncertain about our roles and our goals. We work too hard to hope for mere survival. Our goal must be to thrive and prosper, not just get by.