Quotes About Ambition

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

Un millón de dólares. Racionalmente admitía que un kilo ya no era lo mismo que antes, y que tendría que pagar la plusvalía. Con todo, la cifra nunca había perdido la imponente rotundidad de su infancia; daba igual cuántos otros tipos comunes y corrientes también llegaran a ser «millonarios», la palabra todavía seguía teniendo su aquél.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

And I believe that this terror is precisely what must have snagged me, the way a ledge will tempt one to jump off. The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart.

I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.

Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

It's a good idea when you believe you're running toward something. But it can get awfully complicated when you're running from something.

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

I don't know why I'm always screwing up at everything, even when I try so hard, all the time, not to. I'd do better if I could, I really would. But I don't know how. There are a lot of things I don't know.

I think the hard thing for you Abbie is not going to be getting what you want in life but figuring out what that is. Once you know what you want - really truly- I know you'll get it.

The higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall " - Cole's Pa

All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office.

He didn't wait to be formed by the universe. He shaped the universe to his will.

Neither of them were setting the world alight but then whose children did? All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office. All of them.

Thirty-one.' 'Not young.' 'No. Not young. She was building a career.' Alix sees a sour look pass across Pat's face. 'Well,' she says. 'Nice if you can plan it that way, I guess.

She wants to ask Pat why she didn't plan it that way. She was clever and had ambitions. Why did she get pregnant at twenty? Why didn't she go back to university afterwards? But she doesn't. Instead, she slides the photo back

Because if she is right and he is wrong, this podcast could be the making of Alix's professional career.

All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office. All of them.

Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.