Quotes About Ambition

Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.

I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

I used to joke that I wanted to go to the moon, but I actually do. Like, some day I think I'm going to go to the moon. That would be cool.

I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.

If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.