Quotes About Ambition

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.

Success only breeds a new goal

Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.

You set aggressive men on a course of unstructured competition, and they soon become desperate men in unscrupulous battle.

What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director – someone whose burning ambition from the age of eleven was to be a funeral home director, whose proudest achievement in adulthood was to be elected president of the Queanbeyan and District Funeral Home Directors' Association – then halve his personality and halve it again, and you have pretty well got John Howard.

Clearly there was a need for some inspired and clever experimentation, and happily the age produced a young person with the diligence and aptitude to undertake it.

For almost four billion years life had dawdled along without any detectable ambitions in the direction of complexity, and then suddenly, in the space of just five or ten million years, it had created all the basic body designs still in use today.

The Greater London Development Plan would have cost a then-colossal £2 billion, making it the biggest public investment ever made in Britain. That was its salvation. Britain couldn't afford it. In the end, the visionaries were undone by the unmanageable scale of their own ambitions. It