Quotes About Ambition

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record.

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

The gas man came one day, and he said, 'What does your husband do?' so I told him, and he said, 'What's the use of that?' He had a point, but on the other hand, I firmly believed in Stephen and his brilliance. I encouraged him to popularise his science just because the gas man had been so insulting.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

Learn to work with the integrity of your vision, not for how much money you can make and the big house.

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I'd like my man to be very simple yet highly ambitious, one who chooses to live with real integrity and humanity.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.

I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

Genius is initiative on fire.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

I don't think I'm intelligent to become an MP!

What happens to most intelligent people is they retire after they turn 26 or 27. I don't have to deal with that problem.

I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.