Quotes About Ambition

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

It was a struggle for me as a kid and everyone knows struggle, whether it's financially, economically, your dreams of becoming whatever you want to be.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?

Atlanta is where I want to be. Believe that.