Quotes About Ambition

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

I love hard work and proving people wrong.

Since I started playing basketball, I had goals. I was going to do everything step by step. I'm proving it, my basketball is getting better.

My story is all about proving myself, no matter what level I'm on.

I like proving people wrong.

I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

I will continue to do TV so long as I get to prove my acting prowess.

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.

I wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

I was going to college. But to be, like, a psychologist, wanting to help people but also just kind of not being my parents.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I've thought about doing sports psychology at university, but it's quite hard.