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Quotes About Ambitious

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
~ Chip Conley
Yes, Gujaratis are humorous but that's not all there is to them. Gujaratis are independent, determined and very hardworking.
~ Paresh Rawal
After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater.
~ Gore Vidal
People ask me, 'Are you worried you're going to be typecast as a John Locke type of guy?' I say he's the perfect guy to be typecast as! He's vulnerable and ambitious and sort of unstable. It was a good actor's role.
~ Terry O'Quinn
My mum is a total go-getter.
~ Cameron Boyce
Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part by examining the literary equivalent of navel-lint in each other's abstruse journals; ambitious, overeducated goofs who had lost touch with what books and reading were actually about and could be content to go on spinning straw into footnoted fool's gold for decades on end.
~ Stephen King
I'm super fiery. I'm a go-getter. No matter what, I'm relentless at what I do so I feel like that shines through.
~ Eva Marie
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
~ Sarah Hall
Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.
~ Steve Jurvetson
To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.
~ Bennett Miller
I'm a hungry individual, but I'm not mean.
~ Howie Long
I'm not very happy idle.
~ Harlan Coben
Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.
~ Hannah Brown
I'm a competitive player, a fighter, and I always try to improve what I think needs improving.
~ Gonzalo Higuain
The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
~ Tom Hunter
Markets are complex systems. Energy production and distribution are complex systems. Manufacturing and transportation are complex systems. Debt is a complex system. So are viruses. And climate change. And globalization. On and on the list goes. If your project is ambitious and depends on other people and many parts, it is all but certain that your project is embedded in complex systems.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
Being in New Orleans with its long history of ambitious women of color like Julianna had shown her that she didn't need the societal stamp of a husband to achiee her goals. ... But would Cole and Lenny succeed without her being Cole's wife?
~ Beverly Jenkins
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.
~ Robert Christgau
Ellos, los escritores, eran pródigos como reyes y estaban llenos de ideales ambiciosos y fantásticos delirios. Era una existencia entre el cielo y la tierra, metida en las tormentas, algo sublime
~ Gustave Flaubert
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
~ Vanessa Carlton
At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
~ Ada Yonath
I'm delighted to have signed for such an ambitious club as Hampshire. I'm very much looking forward to my first taste of county cricket. It's also an honour to follow other Bajans like Malcolm Marshall and Gordon Greenidge to Hampshire.
~ Fidel Edwards