Quotes About Ambition

I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

I'm having No. 1 hits on the country charts and that's where I always wanted to be. I've had 26 No. 1 country records. That thrills me to no end.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.

I thrive on the pressure. I love it. I love the fear factor that goes with it. Perhaps it's strange, but that's just me.

Every child thrives on encouragement, but beware of forcing it. I've seen too many family relationships crumble because of excessive ambition on the course or the range.

I thrive on competition.

I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.

Do you need an aggressive streak to thrive? You could say that. A lot of the great players have that mentality.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

I moved to New York because I thrive there.

There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are.

I thrive on impossible odds - always have.

I thrive on healthy competition.

I think we are a company that thrives on a good challenge.

I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

Hopefully I will continue to thrive.

We have lofty goals, and we thrive on that.

New Yorkers want to work and thrive.

Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.