Quotes About Ambition

I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.

I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

Before I went into the music business I wanted to be a surgeon.

My first ambition was to be a brain surgeon.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

I thought that the fashion world could be a bit fake sometimes, but it's nothing compared to Hollywood. These girls would walk over their grandmothers' graves to get a part, and the producers talk about actresses like they're dirt, picking over every part of them so that they end up paranoid and having surgery.

I was always confident in my ability, I was always confident in the talent that I had, and I felt WWE was a very good fit for me. After it didn't happen for a couple of years and I had a knee surgery and everything, there were times I had doubts.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

You know, this might surprise people, but what I really want and what I'm really working toward is a Chanel suit. I'd really like to have one that I could wear forever - a really classic one.