Quotes About Ambition

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn't come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears - like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.

When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought 'This is it. I've arrived. I'm going to be an overnight world star.'

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'

Long story short: I didn't start out thinking I'd be a tech entrepreneur.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

In college, if anyone asked me - professors or classmates - I said, 'I want to be a lab tech.' Because I was afraid that people would laugh at me if I said I wanted to be a doctor.

There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries in space, and the establishment of the first human communities on Mars. We could have - we can - do it anytime we actually decide that it is our goal, organize ourselves to make it happen, and Just Do It.

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

Hundreds of players have physical and technical talents but very few make it.

I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant you couldn't work in engineering and as Vauxhall was the local employer that's what we were all being groomed for.