Quotes About Ambition

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

The meritocracy defines "community" as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another.

living life in a pragmatic, utilitarian manner turns you into a utilitarian pragmatist. The "How do I succeed?" questions quickly eclipse the "Why am I doing this?" questions.

as people become more dependent on God, their capacity for ambition and action increases. Dependency doesn't breed passivity; it breeds energy and accomplishment.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he'd feel miserable.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

First initiative, then life.

There is no such thing in this world as a pure meritocracy.Nobody gets to the top without being lucky. Luck happens to the most deserving of people and some of the most undeserving.

Most ambitious people are not naturally team players. They're ruthlessly competitive individualists.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

A ojos de todos, Pete será para siempre el tipo que estuvo a punto de ser un Beatle.

Pero llega un momento en que lo que queremos importa menos que lo que podemos conseguir.

Blinded by the prize, they did not see that there was a contest.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Almost every night I say, "I wish I had done much better,

Maurice liked this place. Even if there were no jewels, it was nice to dream about being rich. It was nice to dream about being well again. This was a place that invited dreams.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?