Quotes About Ambition

Thus men who are naturally conscious of what they are shun nothing, so much as rest; they would do anything to be disturbed.

Goering's on the phone to Freiburg - Says, Willie's done quite a job - Hitler's on the phone from Berlin - Says, I'm gonna make you a STAR!

Success means you're going to have better problems. I'm very happy with the problems I have now.

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Absolutely, he says. If it's at all possible.

it ain't where you're from, its where you're going to

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.

You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in.

I didn't have any of these dreams or thoughts, but I was going to acquire them.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

There are men who reach the moon when most of us can not peel off the ground

Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan.

you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities

Wanting alone doesn't get anything done.

less than 10% of the writers have a clear idea of where they want to be in five years with their writing career.

those who want the lifestyle of 'author'. They never get published. The ones who want to BE an author make it.

Just as it is important to know what you want in your novel, it is key to know what you want from your career.

so few understood that blinding ambition was the necessary ingredient of any intelligence or talent.

Tacitus said: 'Chief among the forces affecting folly is lust for power, the most flagrant of all the passions.' Once one treads in the halls of power

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.