Quotes About Ambition

The officials told Gehry that they wanted a building that could do for Bilbao and the Basque Country what the Sydney Opera House had done for Sydney and Australia: put them on the map and bring back growth.

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers, hold conferences, develop products, or write books for their own sakes. They do these things in order to accomplish other things.

My ambition is to reach the heart of the average American, not the highbrow nor the lowbrow but that vast intermediate crew which is the real soul of the country.

There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible. - Reinhold Messner

A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

Success is often only a revenge on happiness

When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.

The far you've come from estimates twice your destination

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go—if there are no doors or windows—he walks through a wall.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.

Due to their reluctance to tie themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their own dreams.

Ühiskonnas tõuseb lihtsamalt ja kiiremini kõrgele see, kes oskab kütkestada, mõrtsukaid liita, valeinformatsiooni levitada, kui see, kes oskab toota uusi mõtteid ja asju.

The great crocodiles of the Bosporus, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Yangtze, and the Volga are squaring off against Little Boy; in the wildest of their schemes, they see themselves taking him down in one bite.

They decided they needed to start their own theatre company to have careers as actors, because neither was prepared to betray their politics to find jobs Or shut their mouths to keep them

I just want to be myself, Bibi wow, talk about low ambitions, don't you want to change the world?

He pointed out that the mattress in the master boudoir was handspring with each spring wrapped in cashmere It's like sleeping on air, Miss Williams, he said as he showed her the suite's 'menu of pillows' on a silver-embossed card As if she was the kind of woman who'd amputate her aspirations to become one of his decorative appendages She had to politely extricate herself from his intentions without jeopardizing the business

When you're a slave you dream of either owning slaves or freeing them.

Politics and governments -- they are more than I can understand. Present systems are corrupted by personal ambition. It is all so complicated and insincere. Conditions are much worse now than they were during the war. In 1914 we went into the fight without argument. We finished it with very little, but now, strangely enough, comes all the wrangling, the restrictions, the selfishness.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

she would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched.