Quotes About Ambition

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

I have a number of projects that I've been dreaming of making ever since I was a child. But I am also very open to the chances of life and the chances of my profession.

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

One must keep challenging oneself to do well in any profession.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

I never planned my career in the film industry, in acting. Yes, I always liked acting, but never ever I thought it would be my profession. I wanted to study, since my family has an academic background.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

Ever since I had decided to study at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, I had wanted to take up acting as my profession.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

I didn't dream about becoming a professional: I dreamed about becoming the best in the world.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I want to be a professional.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don't get me wrong - I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it's sparse.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.