Quotes About Ambition

I don't have any godfather, I had to continuously prove myself as a vocalist to survive in the music scene.

I don't want to be New Vocalist of the Year; that's not a goal of mine. If those things come along, that would be awesome, but that's not something I strive for.

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

When I joined the Marine Corps, you have to do a vocational test to get in, and I took the test, they were like, 'You did great. You can do anything you want to do.' I said, 'OK, I want to do this.' 'Except for that because you're a woman.'

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.

Everybody would like to be on the cover of 'Vogue.'

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

Ever since I was little, I looked up to Destiny's Child so much; I looked up to the Spice Girls and En Vogue. A piece of me wanted to be in a girl group.

I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.

Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.

I started at the top. My first job was the cover of 'Italian Vogue,' which is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. So, there was nowhere else to go from there.

I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly.

I'm a curvy, ethnic girl and I'm shooting with 'Vogue.' I want people to see and feel like, 'If Jordyn can do it, I can do it too.'

My first thought when I started in journalism is that I wanted to work for a fashion publication like 'Vogue' or 'Glamour.'

I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.

If you really have a passion for something, you should follow it and listen to your inner voice.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.