Quotes About Ambition

Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

Dreams age faster than dreamers.

Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town am I, Gordie? Gordie: You can do anything you want, man. Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin. Gordie: I'll see ya. Chris: Not if I see you first.

Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant.

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure. If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that way We all came digging for treasure.

I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk.

He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

I don't want to be a Disney prince. To hell with that. If I have to be a prince, I want to be a dark one.

A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.

Remember, my talented friend, there are Michelangelos begging everywhere in the streets of Rome...

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.

Follow your dreams and make them happen!

Only you can make your dreams come true ...or not.

Never let the joy of a single victory engulf your desire for more.

Keep Attitude With High Altitude

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves

Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard.

We all have a purpose, or calling. If it's greed, hence, lies the wrong path.

There are those who will see your success as their failure.

Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.