Quotes About Ambitious

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole, just an enthusiastic one who did his job and got things done.

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole

In September 1929, just as the architects were getting down to work on this unprecedented building program, management set a date that seemed unrealistically early—May 1, 1931. That date gave the architects a year and nine months in which to design the building and to oversee its construction.

How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.

Their operating principle is, "Look out world—here I come.

My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

Hegel did not earn his reputation as a "difficult" philosopher for nothing. Yet no philosophy has ever been as magnificent, as ambitious, and as inspiring. Hegel showed how humanity and God are inextricably linked. He showed how it can truly be said that we can become God.

what we call religion is actually the oldest and most ambitious attempt to create order in consciousness.

The founders worried constantly about how their envisioned republic might get hijacked, especially by ambitious officials who would transform it into an elective despotism. This is what they meant.

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

A night journey on a bus was one of the few times when everything ambitious, wild, overconceived, hopeless, garish, and suffocatingly technical in American life nonetheless came together long enough to give the citizens a little peace, for it was only when they were on the move that Americans could feel anchored in their memories.

Postcards of landscapes, panoramas of old ruins, postcards ambitiously prepared so as to show as much as possible on that flat space, are slowly being replaced by photographs focusing on details. This is no doubt a good idea, because they relieve tired minds. There is too much world, so it's better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.

Opera producer Larry Kelly

It was a bold plan. If your definition of bold is plain batshit crazy.