Quotes About Ambition

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.

Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.

Don't stop until you get where you're trying to go.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

I'm really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn't be where I am.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

Nothing is impossible. No matter where you're from.

Determination Over Negativity is a belief that anything is possible no matter who you are or where you come from.

Getting away from where you live and going to London is like the romantic ideal of ambition.

It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference.