Quotes About Ambition

I have plans of becoming a director soon. I just finished my script. I don't know when I'll direct the film. It is ready and has reached its third draft.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don't let others stop you from reaching your goals.

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I'll keep reaching.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a 'name' around the country.

My dad had a dream of his kids reaching the NFL. My older brother was actually the first to make it. His career didn't really last too long, but he always had more passion for documentaries.

With a lot of attention comes criticism, but I'll take that. I'm reaching all the goals I've set for myself, so you can't say anything bad about that.

As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.

Competition is good for any player as long as they react the right way and use it as motivation.

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

I'm hungry. I'm ready to grow.