Quotes About Ambition

She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

I'm about this shmoney.

If one day I start thinking about playing abroad, money won't be the reason.

You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he's possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.

I don't worry about starting. I'm not worried about accolades or things like that.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

Most anything I've ever set my mind to, I could accomplish.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.