Quotes About Ambition

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

The character of Chandigarh appears to be slow, but people here are quite competitive.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I have no plans to slow down.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

It might be a slow process reaching to the top but I am patient. I don't want to get into something that I am not completely convinced about.

When I was younger, I always thought, 'I can do anything' but I felt myself turning slower, picking up hamstring injuries. It went from bad to worse.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.

My mom always told me to set goals for myself. And slowly going through and checking those things off of my list, that feels like success to me.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I needed more stuff that glowed so when the lights went out, you could actually see me the whole time. So I slowly built it from there. I wanted everything to glow. I want my hair to glow, I want my nails to glow, I want my eyes to glow, I want my lips to glow, you know?

Milan, Inter, Roma, Juventus, Lazio - all of the big Italian clubs would be nice, but my son has a lot of work to do to show himself off and demonstrate his talent. Let's take things slowly.

Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.

I want to have a long career, so I'm fine with it growing slowly.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.