Quotes About Ambition

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

It is not a mistake to want power.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you're creating art.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.

In a dream, a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

I don't want to be a bit-part player, I want to be right in the mix with everybody else.

All I get on my Twitter is 'Please fight Groves again' and 'Why won't Froch take the fight?' and 'Get in the mix... ' But it's just so hard to do that. I wish it were easy.

Evan Bayh learned early that liberalism and ambition don't always mix in a red state like Indiana.

I want to fight guys who are in the title mix.

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.

It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you're not making good money.

Now I know what it feels to be a working mother - it's a mixed feeling. A part of me wants to face the camera, the other wants to stay with my son. But I am sure when the camera rolls, I'll forget everything else.

Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.