Quotes About Ambition

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

Ambition is a form of creativity.

I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.

I wanted to travel. I wanted hit records. I wanted success. I wanted respect, but not credibility - that's one thing Boyzone never looked for.

You don't have any credibility unless you are working on 12 films at the same time.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.

Credit comes with success, and I need to have a lot more of it. In due time - I'm not rushing.

Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.

I am not one of those girls who will sit on my bed and crib that nothing is happening with my life and things are not working.

I wanted to be in show business before I could get out of my crib.

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.

When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.

I had to chose between chess and cricket.

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and also tried rugby and cricket, and triathlon didn't really become part of my life until I was 16 or 17 - but it was the sport I enjoyed most.

My dream is to play Test cricket.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

In professional cricket, everybody wants to win.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.