Quotes About Ambition

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought.

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

One day, I would like to have my own chat show. Oprah is my idol because she uses her platform so responsibly.

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

In 'Drama,' I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

I too had the usual insecurities. I wanted a good house and a healthy bank balance. But I never got cowed down.

I've never been the top dog. I've always been the underdog. And that's why I relate so much to Utah, because we're underdogs, we're overlooked, kind of thought of as an afterthought.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.

There were so many times that, as waitresses, you look at your bank account and you literally have 100 bucks, and you're thinking, 'How am I going to pay my utility bill, my rent?' but at the same time thinking, 'How am I going to accomplish my dreams?'

Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.

If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.

I want to become a serious politician like N T Rama Rao and Vinod Khanna who were from the film industry but joined politics and worked with utmost seriousness.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.