Quotes About Ambition

It's gonna be on me to go out there every single night and make sure that I'm the best player that can be and I continue to work hard and don't get complacent and do everything in my power to to be at that level.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.

Every single thing related to Old Trafford is amazing. When I was a little kid, I dreamed of playing in a real field, but I never imagined something as fantastic as this.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

I feel like I have so much more to do here. Whether that's singles matches or whatever, I love NXT and I love being a part of it.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

'Reflection' and 'Going Nowhere' would've been great singles because that's the exact sound that we wanted to achieve.

I feel like I am constantly getting challenged by every song I sing because I'm not that lucky girl who sings 100 similar songs and becomes famous.

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

One of my dreams is to work with Ilaiyaraaja sir and do more with Anirudh and Santhosh Narayanan.