Quotes About Ambition

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

You've got the second-system problem where people who've had some success are given a blank slate and allowed to do whatever they want. Generally, they will fail because they'll be too ambitious, they won't understand the limits. And you get nothing out of that. You have to have extreme discipline to say, "It's not a blank slate; it's reimplementing what we had here; it's doing what we knew.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. —ROBERT JARVIK

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.

Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

En este país, los que intentan triunfar sin enchufes ni contactos son asesinos en potencia

Marksizmin ilmini sevmez, fakat ruhunu severdi. Asla gerçekle?miyece?ini bildi?i büyük emellerinden biri de bu ruhu o ilmihalden kurtarmakt?: Bir sat?r?n? yazmad??? ne eserler tasarlam??t?. T?ptan felsefeye atlay???n?n sebeplerinden biri bu arzu idi, felsefede kalamay???n?n sebeplerinden biri de bu iradesizlik.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

What, exactly, am I going to do with my life?

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)