Quotes About Ambition

Obviously you'd always be happy to have another tour on the side, earning extra money, but for most of the players I think we're all pretty happy.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

I wanted to start my career on TV with a show which could extract maximum potential out of me and of course, I was also looking at what team of people I get associated with for my debut show.

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

I didn't want to be Trish Stratus, I didn't want to be Lita, but I wanted to be on their level and to be seen in people's eyes at that level.

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

I'd love a job at Facebook.

I have faced a lot of people who said that I would always be in my father's shadow. I just take that, and I use that as a boost because, as much as I love my father, I am trying to make a name for myself.

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

Growing up, I didn't think it would be possible to be an actress - I didn't see a lot of Latina faces on TV or in movies. But that didn't stop me from trying. I realized early that anything I really wanted was worth working for.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

I'd feel OK facing anyone for the welterweight title.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.