Quotes About Ambition

Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.

Why is it that you and I suppose that if we want something, it must come to pass?" Charles's lips quirked up into a smile so colored by grief that it felt almost as if other people had been brought by that tiny expression into the hushed solitude of the chamber. "There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

Most things are possible, if one decides they are.

We're the first generation where artists have become true businessmen and felt neither shame nor pain

From here there is never not a day without Master's shadow across my life—a solid bar, a locked turnstile that brings me up short, trapped on the other side of where I thought I was going, the place I once imagined I would be.

You want to be sure you're working for someone who will advocate on your behalf and isn't going to try to keep you in your same old spot—out

it's this: the squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease. One of the most important things you must learn to do in your career is ask—in the right way. You must ask for money, responsibility, opportunities, title changes, benefits, bonuses, and perks. And don't

willing to abrogate his own creative ambitions.

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

It was becoming apparent that Chick himself had only one ambition and that was to help everybody so much that they would love him.

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.

Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.

No," I said primly, I had no intention of being a writer because "I wouldn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world.

There are no guarantees of success, much less of quality. If you don't dare to be a mediocre writer, you'll never be a writer at all.

All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving.

That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!

No slouch" was okay, but "any ocean" was definitely preferable - metaphorically speaking.

f you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

One learns from girlhood to fear the competitive energy, the ambient fury and resentment that can be aimed at powerful females. And yet at the same time, women often want or need power. The goal, then, is to take power in a way that navigates that rage or resentment; it is a little like trying to feed a dragon without getting burned.

That childish ardor for a love that demands sacrifice of you, the rigors and discipline of it, can look selfless from the outside, but it is not selfless. It is instead the elevation of a private fantasy that is ambitious and greedy enough to foist itself onto the unsuspecting world.

You ruthless, cold-hearted bastard! You'll use anything and anyone you have to, won't you? As long as you get what you want, as long as you win, you don't give a shit what happens to anyone else!