Quotes About Ambition

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

I was about 14 and I was having a lot of problems with my mom at home, and she really wanted me to focus on school and basketball. But music was all I wanted to do. I felt out of time and out of step with everyone, because they were all into hip-hop and I was so into Sly Stone and Prince.

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.