Quotes About Ambition

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

I own 'The New York Observer.'

I obsess over places I will never live and restaurants at which I aspire to eat.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright, that one day I would have the chance to come to Augusta every year. Just a crazy, really, almost obsession for me.

I do not want to be in fights where people see me as an obstacle on the road. I want to be the man challenging.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

There are always going to be obstacles. I think the bigger your aspirations, the larger the obstacles.

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

I never give up when I encounter obstacles in my way. I just continue going until I reach my career objectives.

A lot of people love to throw the social climber thing at people who are on the rise, but it's really just God moving all the people that are distractions, all the obstacles, out of the way for me to achieve what I'm destined to achieve.

I always faced obstacles in my career.

Locke' was sort of myself trying to find out if you could give yourself the maximum number of obstacles to make enough drama and seeing if you could do it.

Going international is difficult. There are obstacles and barriers, but I couldnt, as some others do, be content with the success achieved in my country.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.