Quotes About Ambition

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

I'm not Zidane and not Rui Costa, but I have qualities - I can create assists - but I have to step up a level to become like those two.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Every step of my career was hard work.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

What kid who was playing basketball didn't have the dream about going to the NBA? It's the biggest and final step.

Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn't really contributing anything to the scene.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

I'm here now playing for Chelsea. I chose to leave my home at Athletic Bilbao, and it was an important step in my career.