Quotes About Ambition

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

for every one to reach the mountain top of his or her desire its really a hustle and hard work

Ljudi preziru sve one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; Navikni se na prezir ako želis mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu...

Onda je otac rekao: pamti, nesre?a je što kod nas niko ne misli da je na pravom mjestu, i svako svakome je mogu?i suparnik; ljudi preziru one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; navikni se na prezir ako želiš mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu. Ali ne ulazi u okršaj ako nisi siguran da ?eš oboriti protivnika. Ne upiri prstom na tu?e nepoštenje ako nisi dovoljno jak da to ne moraš dokazivati.

Led je pucao i kršio se u meni, ostaju?i zgomilan. Sam sebi sam najve?a prepreka, izgleda: htio sam da pišem o drugima, a mislio sam o sebi neriješenom.

?etrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: ?ovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a ve? star da ih ostvaruje.

Zar mislite da ?e ?ovjek posti?i ono što želi?

San je ono što se želi, a život je bu?enje.

A odricanje je ubjedljivo, ne postavlja sebi granice ni ciljeve, ni?emu ne teži, ništa ne brani. Teže je nešto braniti nego napadati, jer ono što se ostvaruje neprestano se haba, neprestano se odvaja od zamisli.

Do vraga, ništa nije toliko naopako kao dobro u?injeno s ciljem, ni toliko glupo kao ?ovjek koji nešto ho?e po svome kalupu.

Choose your career carefully. You build your career and your career builds you.

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

that you didn't work just for the money, you worked for the freedom work gave you, for the chance to be a stronger, more interesting version of yourself.

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to the Stop & Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. "How can I just have this one life?

And you don't always have to feel the compulsion to keep striving toward something for the sake of striving. No one will think less of you. There are no grades anymore, Greer. Sometimes I think you forget that. There are never going to be grades for the rest of your life, so you just have to do what you want to do. Forget about how it looks. Think about what it is.

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

When do I stop? When I'm tewnty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tell s you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

When you lived a certain kind of life, pushed along by good colleges and internships and jobs and a shared, tranquil neighborhood and a world of privilege in which your child overlapped, you were inevitably part of a long chain of connections. All of them could help one another; the possibilities were there if they wanted them, though many of them didn't seem to want them anymore, or maybe they had somehow forgotten they had once wanted them.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.