Quotes About Ambitious

As to which question to choose, to some degree the question chooses you. It's the one that resonates with you for some reason only you understand. What will make it a beautiful question for you, and one worth staying with, is the passion you feel for it. Look for a question that is "ambitious yet actionable"—or, as the physicist Edward Witten puts it, a question that's hard enough to be interesting, but realistic enough that you have some hope of answering it.

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

To be accomplished but resented. Or to hide behind the more outré of their pursuits and be considered erratic but harmless.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

The World Is Yours

I've always been very - for lack of a better phrase - hit-seeking, hit-driven.

If you wanna make a lot of money, you should hire me.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

I'm a Capricorn.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Chelsea are champions of Europe, and there is not much more to say than that. Even after winning the Champions League, they still go and sign players of the highest quality. Their ambition is clear.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was smart in business, works hard, and can be sexy and a mom. A powerful but still sexy, nonconforming woman.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

The way earlier societies seem obviously absurd and cruel gives a kind of horror at the forces that must be at work in our own, but suggests that any society must have dramatically satisfying and dangerous conventions; and people can put up with almost any political conditions, either because they are lazy or because they are ambitious.

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

We can only describe actual performance goals that are realistic

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. —Marcus Tullius Cicero

Himmler was an ambitious, sinister, idealistic creature of devious ways. His ideas on human behaviour had been gleaned from animal breeding lectures at agricultural college years before. The SS had certain affinities to the Jesuit monastic orders, an enforced mysticism which even Hitler found slightly ludicrous: in 1940, witnessing the pagan Yule celebration of the SS Leibstandarte at Christmas, he quietly commented to an adjutant that this would never take the place of 'Silent Night.

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

New York is the great stone desert.