Quotes About Ambition

The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.

I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I'm very uncoordinated, and I'd love to be able to bust a really great move.

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

I have long held the ambition of my own TV chef programme.

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.

I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

Don't worry too much on pathways programs: good players find a way to get through to play for their country.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.