Quotes About Ambition

But the reason she was bourgeois was so she could make work that wasn't bourgeois. If she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.

revolved around Macbeth

Remember: you are as good as you are tomorrow.

I feel like I've fucked everything up. I'm a fucking genius so I don't know why I fuck everything up all the time, but I do. I want to stop but I don't know how.

As Sam often said to Sadie, "Why make anything if you don't believe it could be great?

So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

You are willing to work hard, but you want something with flexible hours. You have a baby on the way. Also, you're sick of bosses. You want to be your own boss, but you don't have much money to start a business.

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Harvard was need-blind (that was significantly why he had chosen it), but even his generous financial aid package didn't cover everything. He didn't owe much, but he couldn't conceive of asking Dong Hyun and Bong Cha to help with his loans, and he had not gone to Harvard to be a poor person.

Sam fully got what she was trying to do, but he also believed that she would have to do more if she were to make games that people loved, not just games that people admired.

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

Being in Manhattan was like running headlong toward your own life, or finding out you could fly. To turn away from it would have seemed the failure of a chance not taken.

Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother's gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.

I want to have everything. And I don't see why I can't.

It is no longer enough to be competent and promising; a man wants now to be recognized and respected.

THE TRYING TWENTIES CONFRONTS US WITH THE QUESTION of how to take hold in the adult world. Incandescent with our molten energies, having outgrown the family and the formlessness of our transiting years, we are impatient to pour ourselves into the exactly right form—our own way of living in the world.

We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

I failed in some subject but my friend pass in all,today he is an engineer in microsoft and iam is owner of microsoft. -Bills Gate

On the Human Plan JAY LAKE

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.