Quotes About Ambition

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

Role models are important and if you see it you can be it.

Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

My mom's a hustler. She a grinder.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm really happy I'm not a doctor. So, take that mom and dad.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

Even coming from Ghana to the United States, my mom and dad did so much to provide a better life for their kids. It was such a huge sacrifice; leaving your entire family - and we have a huge family - leaving them to come to America and have a better life for their kids.

I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can't have because you're focused on being the best.

When you give up something as big as playing for England there are going to be moments when you miss it.

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.

I do feel my work has momentum.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

The momentum that I had before winning the NXT Women's Championship was incredible. I was doing absolutely everything and anything.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.