Quotes About Ambition

I've been looked past the majority of my career. I'm overlooked, underestimated.

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

To be underestimated is my biggest motivation.

I'm the most underestimated lightweight in the world.

There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.

It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.

I am used to people underestimating me.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.

I learned that the dream of being in the biggest girl band in the world came with its flaws and consequences. Consequences such as knowing about the existent underlying racism in the creative industries.

I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.

Mediocrity is underrated.

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

My whole life people underrated me.