Quotes About Ambition

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.

There is one thing you must know about Marko Arnautovic if you want to understand what makes him tick: he believes he's the best player in the world.

It is just nice to be able to tick off all of the events I've won and hopefully one day be able to complete them all.

I'm so interested in people's journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.

I've got to literally write my own ticket.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.

I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.

At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in the local Wigan paper, and they rang me to ask why I was being so aggressive. I just went, 'Hey man, it's like boxing. I'm just trying to sell a ticket.'

Whether it's a speeding ticket or whatever it might be, some of us are trying to get an edge some way or another in life.

Quite simply, to win Miss World is not a ticket to millions and I've read that so many times.

I came to Mumbai to participate in a dance reality show and thought that could be my ticket to Bollywood. Gradually, I discovered that acting is what I am more passionate about and that passion has helped my boat sail.

I had achieved a lot on TV and I wanted to do a film. And during that time I was told many that 'you are a TV star, when people can watch you for free on TV who will buy a ticket to watch you on screen?' I faced it a lot.