Quotes About Ambition

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream.

After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

I had been offered a six-figure deal to write two cookery books. Six figures, at just 23.

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.