Quotes About Ambition

You don't sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet." Rey smiled, "Can I be both?" But you'd rather be a poet." Who wouldn't?" he said.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire good PR.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!

before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person. - Then what? - ...and not come back until I had totally become this person... I used to think about it all the time... - I don't get it... - That's because you don't uterlly loathe yourself

I always wanted to make movies.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Why reach for something you can never fully attain? But it's also a source of allure. Why not reach for it? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.

start planning how to achieve those top five goals. And the other twenty? Get rid of them.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Daniel H. Pink

If one person embodies this approach to work and life—the apex predator of the anticipated regret food chain—that person is Jeff Bezos. He's one of the richest people in the world, thanks to founding Amazon, one of the largest companies on the planet. He owns The Washington Post. He visits outer space. Yet in the domain of our most misunderstood emotion, he is best known for a concept that he calls the "Regret Minimization Framework.

intrinsically motivated purpose maximizers, not only extrinsically motivated profit maximizers.

But unless carefully managed and contained, self-criticism can become a form of inner-directed virtue signaling. It projects toughness and ambition, but often leads to rumination and hopelessness instead of productive action.[

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

Daniel Ichbiah

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.