Quotes About Ambition

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.