Quotes About Ambition

There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.

In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'

I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.

When I first started playing I was earning 27.50 a week, and Id offer to clean the senior footballers cars for a couple of quid. Id sweep the stands in the off-season and even paint the changing rooms.

My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

Week in, week out, you take a lot of losses and I think that's kind of got me stuck, got me hooked on enjoying the game a lot more. Still wanting to prevail and to succeed, to go for more and want more.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Natalie Dormer