Quotes About Ambition

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

You just do the roles that you want to do and that you're lucky enough to get cast in, and then eventually you have that career. I feel like you can't control it; it just happens organically.

I love challenges in my life and I love to turn around organisations.

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.