Quotes About Ambition

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I think I would've been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it's all about longevity.

My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.

For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience.

It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director - a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance.

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

Any time you establish new territory for yourself, you've got to feel good.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

Ever since I was in the Chelsea academy, I've had that awareness that people were saying I would be the first one to break through since John Terry. I believed I could, but the opportunities didn't quite come for me.