Quotes About Ambition

I was scared of planes and then also just got this job. It was $10 an hour. To me, that was way more important than meeting J. Cole.

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

Eventually my ego is going to be the size of the planet Earth.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

If I would have planned it, I would have had what Gosling has, that kind of art-house career.

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Just because something that you wanted your whole life didn't quite work out as you planned it to - a lot of the times it's not supposed to work out how you want it to - it will grow you as a person and make you better.

I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.

I had not planned my career.

I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

For sure people around me, they always say don't do ovals, we are not happy to see you doing that. I'm not saying I'm scared, I'm not scared to do ovals. But I never thought about it. I was not really planning to go to do Formula Indy.

A career is forward planning.

Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that's what I'm planning on doing. For me, that's not pressure. It's a chance to show the world who I am.

Becoming the heavyweight champion is not what I'm dreaming of - it's my goal. It's what I'm planning to do.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.