Quotes About Ambition

I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that mum and dad could drive me to and pick me up from. I couldn't ever imagine living on my own and having a job that I wanted to do. Because I never saw it.

Knowing how much was sacrificed to give me the opportunity to find the thing that lights me up isn't lost on me, and it's something I know a lot of people can relate to, whether their parents arrived here in Australia recently or not.

I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

That's how I've had success my whole life. That's the recipe for me, just locking in on the moment. But I start thinking about getting paid and all this other stuff, and my mind is not right. It makes it really tough to focus on what you've got to do.

I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.

It has been my ambition, for some time, to bring the heart of the house back to life. 'Emma's Kitchen' is the result of that ambition - a space for me to share my passion and some of my favourite recipes.

I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then.

Women would rather go to their daughter's piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they're less ambitious.

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.

I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

I reckon every player feels much the same on the eve of a Six Nations championship. We all want to finish top, win the title and do our respective countries proud in the process. We're also aware a lot of other people are seeking precisely the same thing. Pessimism and optimism collide like two ferrets in a sack.

I reckon people's attitude to us is a challenge that motivates you to show them what this band can do.

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.

The Ballon d'Or is nice, but at the end of the day, I want to have success and play good, and if people recognise me, then I'm happy.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

As far as cinema is concerned, I want to do something huge. I want to be recognised everywhere I go.