Quotes About Ambition

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.

Everybody wants to play for Pep.

I am not dependent on Pep. He is a great coach, but I do not need to take the same path as him.

I have done so many great things compared to many leaders. But I didn't do 1 per cent of what I am dreaming.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.

Blackstone is not really a business per se. It's a mission to be the best.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.

It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.

I've always has been involved in things that may be perceived or may synonymously be associated with pressure, so it's never been a bother.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.