Quotes About Ambition

I have realized that there is no point doing a small film.

I expect a lot of myself. There is no point turning up if you don't think you can win.

I can manage it if I don't make it in Hollywood. I've got nothing to lose, which is the great thing. There's no pressure.

Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

I have always wanted to play for United, and when I got my chance, I knew I had to take it no matter what, so you go out with no pressure.

No pressure on the outside is greater than the pressure I put on myself.

Me, myself, I ain't never had no problem hustling with nobody.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her. They

It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I was a man, but I was not nearly the magnitude of a man I had hoped I might be

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It's our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can't I? Where's mine, huh?

The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.

Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

She had been dumped a couple of years before by a sort of male equivalent to Charlie, a guy called Michael who wanted to be something at the BBC. (He never made it, the wanker, and each day we never saw him on TV or heard him on the radio, something inside us rejoiced.)

Problema della mia generazione è che ci sentiamo tutti dei geni del cazzo. Far qualcosa per noi non è abbastanza, e neanche vendere qualcosa, o insegnare qualcosa o solamente combinare qualcosa: no, noi dobbiamo essere qualcosa.

Benim kuÅŸa??m?n sorunu ÅŸu: Hepimiz kendimizi birer dahi san?yoruz. Elimizle bir iÅŸ yapmak ya da bir ÅŸeyler satmak bizi tatmin etmiyor, biz ille de bir ÅŸeyler olmak istiyoruz. 21. Yüzy?lda yaÅŸayan insanlar olarak bunun en doÄŸal hakk?m?z olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyoruz. EÄŸer Christina Aguilera, Britney ya da daha bilmem kaç tane boÅŸ kafal? AmerÅŸkan pop y?ld?z? bir ÅŸey olabiliyorsa, biz niye olmayal?m?

wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

She wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

She'd always suspected that she was the sort of girl who wouldn't go home to see a sick father if she had a shot at a television series, but she'd rather hoped that the news would be revealed slowly, and not for a while yet.

What do you want? Because if you don't want something, you've got nothing. You are adrift, you are washed away, and then buried under the snow and the shadows. And when, in the spring, the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried, and you will no longer be anywhere.