Quotes About Ambition

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.

I can honestly say that, growing up, it never crossed my mind that I could ever make anything. I could write articles about things, which is why I wanted to be a professor. I loved watching movies and writing about them and teaching them, but it never crossed my mind that I could make something.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

I am not a star kid, my parents are from Delhi, my dad manages a business, my mother is a professor, I have no filmi background, so if I don't have skills, I don't stand a chance in this industry full of star kids and people with influence.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.

I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

I'm not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.