Quotes About Ambition

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

The successful fundraiser is the one who is disappointed by almost all that he does. Nothing is good enough. The gift isn't large enough, the presentation wasn't dramatic enough. But he will go on, persevere, work even harder to meet his high expectations.

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

Playing video games and making comics didn't look like raw materials for success. In fact, what we were doing looked very similar to fucking around.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Today I will do what other's won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I will do today what others won't, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Every work of art is a culturescape of you, your memories, the moments you spent working, your hopes, energies, and neuroses, the times you live in, and your ambitions. Of the things that are engaging, mysterious, meaningful, resistant over time.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe.

You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.

Rec Room! Wow!" My eyes would have glazed over if they hadn't started out that way, pre-glazed. "I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.