Quotes About Ambition

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

City's boss and owner came with a very good proposal. They showed me that City has the ambition to be one of the biggest clubs in the world. This made it easy to make the move. Money was never important.

A good financial proposal doesn't mean you'll get to do a lot of things. There are times when you have to think about your career.

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

A lot of my friends who were bigger than me at school got into academies at professional clubs but none are pros now. And none of them has put on an England shirt.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

It's an exciting prospect playing in the NBA, one that every player wants. When you are little you dream about it.

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

The last thing I wanted to do was get buried in Triple-A behind prospects.