Quotes About Ambition

I have been an ardent cricket fan since childhood. I started out as a fast bowler and I was selected for Indias Under-19 cricket world cup team. Unfortunately, I hurt my elbow during training and even though I tried my best to get it treated, all efforts were futile.

It was my Dads dream for me to play for India. It was my dream to win a World Cup.

Of course I want to get into the England World Cup team, especially having been so close, but I'm not going to be concentrating on it or let it be at the front of my mind.

World domination was never the plan.

I just knew that I wanted world domination. I knew that with anything I do, I want to be the greatest. That entails being great everywhere. Not just in America - everywhere.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.

The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.

I will always write for other people. I will always write for myself. I will always want to make money. I will always want to be prominent and prevalent in the charts... so yeah, world domination.

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

We had a 'Project Joey' scheme worked out in which I would take correspondence courses while acting in Hollywood. Then when I flew home, teachers would come on their own time and help me hone up in world history, psychology, English literature and French. We gave it a noble try, and I hope some day to complete the project.

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

The People's Republic of China has 2 million strong in its military, and it's trying to make them stronger through gene editing, and that's just one of the ways that China is trying to essentially dominate the planet and set the rules and the world order.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

And as - funny enough, it actually became - so I've always wanted to be a Guinness world record holder. And believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world's largest Nerf gun, but there is now.

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.