Quotes About Ambition

I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.

I wanted to understand the business side of entertainment, and that's why I decided to complete my MBA while I was in Delhi.

Being from Jammu, I always saw Delhi as this big city where everyone would want to be.

When I started, I was very deliberate about making friends with people like John Mulaney who were really funny and wanted to go up and do as many open mics as I did.

Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

I feel people will expect from me more than I can deliver, but then again, I think, pressure will drive me to give my best.

When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I wanted to become a model out of delusion. It was always something that I wanted to do, I just never thought that I would have the opportunity.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

I've always had a bit of delusional confidence.

Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?

I really do think (and likely I'm a bit delusional) that if I still had time, with the drive and love for the game that I have now, I could've maybe made a legitimate run at the NHL - or at least that's what I tell myself.

My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

I demand of myself that I take part and work hard in training to ensure I'm in the starting line-up and help the team.

I was always a player who demanded the maximum at training and to try to finish as high as possible. I have that as coach, too.