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Quotes About Ambition

When you want something bad enough, you make the time—regardless of your other obligations. The truth is most people just don't want it bad enough. Then they protect their ego with the excuse of time. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.
~ Jason Fried
Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time.
~ Jason Fried
The truth is most people just don't want it bad enough. Then they protect their ego with the excuse of time. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.
~ Jason Fried
So sacrifice some of your darlings for the greater good. Cut your ambition in half. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. Most
~ Jason Fried
No te has fijado que mientras que las empresas pequeñas quieren ser mayores, las grandes aspiran a ser más ágiles y flexibles?
~ Jason Fried
Great companies start in garages all the time. Yours can too.
~ Jason Fried
Cut your ambition in half. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.
~ Jason Fried
Make them see dollar signs where you see greater freedom, more
~ Jason Fried
But maybe the only way to achieve the impossible was to be unaware that was what you were trying to do.
~ Jason Fry
it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
~ Jason Kelly
I grew up skateboarding it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
~ Jason Lee
I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
~ Jason Lee
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.
~ Jason Love
Marion Crane. The girl who just wanted a better life.
~ Jason Pinter
Never in his unlimited lifespan had he ever allowed anyone to call him anything but President Gorlax. Even when he was a fledgling, and not even a president. The other kids hated him for it. He had them killed.
~ Jason Z. Christie
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
~ Jasper Fforde
There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
~ Javier Bardem
The soldier doesn't usually act on his own initiative, he doesn't harbour feelings of hatred or resentment or jealousy, he isn't motivated by long-held desires or personal ambition; the only motivating force is a vague, rhetorical, empty patriotism, for those soldiers, that is, who are moved by such feelings or allow themselves to be convinced.
~ Javier Marías
Aspiramos siempre, supongo, a ser unos elegidos, y es improbable que de otro modo estuviéramos muy dispuestos a recorrer el trayecto entero de una vida entera, que corta o larga nos va rindiendo.
~ Javier Marías
Uno va reduciendo sus ímpetus y sus expectativas, se va conformando con versiones deterioradas de lo que quiso alcanzar o creyó haber alcanzado
~ Javier Marías
Una de las características del hombre es que nunca renuncia a nada que haya probado, si lo ha probado con impunidad o con éxito, tanto da.
~ Javier Marías
Go the extra mile, it's rarely crowded.
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy...
~ Dreiser, Theodore
Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.
~ Drew Karpyshyn