Quotes About Ambition

I'd be okay with that - staying at 155, making weight at 155 for the rest of my career. But every once in a while, having a super fight at 170 - St-Pierre and I squaring off. I'd be cool with that.

Staying hungry and never being satisfied is how you always improve.

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

I have already told Neymar he could be the best player in the world, but I think that if he stays at PSG, he will never achieve that.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you're doing the career that you're on. I think it would be silly for that to change.

My goal stays the same of wanting to be an NBA point guard.

When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.

Americans - in general, we are very steadfast people: we know what we want; we get what we want.

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.

I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.

My career's been a slow and steady build, which I'm grateful for, because had it been this thing where I just exploded, I don't know that I, as a sensitive person, could have handled it emotionally.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.