Quotes About Ambition

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful