Quotes About Ambition

There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.

Možete neÅ¡to željeti, gospodo Duffy, ali to ne znaci da cete to i dobiti. NeÅ¡to silno željeti nekada jednostavno nije dovoljno.«

Sjedite li cijeli dan i smiÅ¡ljate na ? ine kako biti naporanili vam je to prirodni refleks? Kao disanje.«

In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. 'The Daily News' endorsed me. I was in 'The New York Times' above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.

They all want to be me. They do! What everybody else says they will do, I've already been doing. They all want to be me. It's become a joke in Congress how Dr. Gingrey and Mr. Kingston have been following my votes. They've even changed votes to what I voted, multiple times. Members of Congress are laughing about it.

If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.

The academy which boasts of 6,000 to 8,000 voting members are most likely to get swayed by the national mood in the US. There is a point person for every movie at the Oscars, who is supposed to promote the film and is trusted by the panel. By keeping all these in mind, Tamil cinema making its way to the final list is quite ambitious.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I don't call myself a writer, much as I'd love to be. An author, maybe - the novel 'Voyage' made $870,000. Writer, no. Nor am I an actor. I was never on the stage.

You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or Rembrandt, and not feel some trepidation. There is always the possibility that you will crash and burn, and the whole thing will be a horrible, vulgar, self-indulgent mess.

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.

We're getting bolder with our drama and we're allowing women to be unapologetic about their ambitions in a professional sense, and also about their vulnerability as mothers and lovers.

To admit that you're shooting for the stars - that you're allowed to do that, that it's not shameful - that to me is very vulnerable.

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

I feel Kavya is a reflection of me in more ways than one. She is strong-willed yet vulnerable. She is ambitious yet she believes in family values. She stands for what is right and knows when something is wrong.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

I just want to play really strong characters that get to do really interesting things. But I would also love to play someone really vulnerable. When I first started my career, I tended to do a lot of things just to get the work.

You have to be able to compete, put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable, to go for something that you want.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.