Quotes About Ambition

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

I don't think about records.

I think it's the opportunity to continue breaking records, either set by other people or by myself. I think that's what pushes me to always make the most of myself and be very demanding on myself.

I am always thinking about records I want to make.

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

I've never chased records.

For sure I want to achieve records.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

My goal was never to sell many records.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

I always said that I took a lot energy, a lot of time for me to recover and come back to the sport and join back in F1, but I would like to stay.

More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I have in my head, because the original idea has always been bigger. Every time I am in the mode of creating a show, there's always some level of gravity that comes in play, either of a monetary sort, or there's a space issue.

Aziz Ansari was on 'Parks and Recreation' for, I don't know, what, seven years? And he was a really popular stand-up comedian. He even says that his Netflix show wouldn't have gotten made unless he created it himself. No one was probably willing to put someone like Aziz as the lead in a show until he actually created it himself.

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream.