Quotes About Ambition

Any player would like to play in the Champions League and progress, that's what I've based my whole career on.

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.

I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.

What people admire about Prime Minister Modi is that he is an ambitious leader who is trying to elevate India economically, and enlisting all Indians in that project will make it more successful.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.