Quotes About Ambition

I've heard a lot about what second-round picks usually do - whether it's D-League or whether it's not playing - but for me, I have high expectations of myself regardless of where I'm picked.

If, say, a striker knows that scoring 30 goals in a season will lead to them winning a prestigious award then they will try that little bit harder because, regardless of what players may say, individual recognition on the world stage is important.

I knew for a fact I needed to get some money. I felt like I was good to go with the music. People around me weren't as confident, but they didn't have to be, because I was going to do it regardless.

My boys' goals are to be in the NBA, regardless of what team.

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to turn on and off, but that's part of the game.

I am an ambitious person. In the West, being ambitious isn't a bad thing. You work hard and you have a purpose in life. But in North Korea, you can never be individualistic. You can never live for yourself. You have to live for the regime.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.

I did a regional car commercial and an internet potato chip commercial. I was seriously thinking I needed to quit and get a serious job where I can feed myself and it doesn't kill my soul.

I am doing what I want to. It doesn't matter if it is a Karan Johar film or a regional film or a short film.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

'Friday Night Lights' was never a break-out hit; I'll never regret doing that show.

No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.

I really wanted to be a captain of industry. I worked at Unilever as brand manager for Lynx after university. While I don't regret leaving, I wish I still had a bit of power.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I don't regret any of my decisions. But yes, I feel that I should have planned my career well in Bollywood. But then again, I did not have any guidance. There was no one to tell me the dos and don'ts.

I chose to be in business, and I don't regret it.

A regret? That I never played for Manchester United, I'd have liked that.