Quotes About Ambition

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans have been creating for thousands of years in order to explain or control what's happening in the world.

I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.

There were good jobs, but they were never what I wanted to do. Somehow, people always thought of Wilma Rudolph as a threat.

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

It's pretty clear that a lot of people in politics see me as a threat, and they should, because I am.

I'm going to show everyone why Jermell Charlo is a threat to the whole 154-pound division.

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

I just hope and pray that I never get threatened by younger actresses coming up behind me. I hope I won't, but you never know what's going to hit you.

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.

There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don't forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can't make money without making sacrifices.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.