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ambition pride envy
William Law All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.
ambition passion play
William Shenstone It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
ambition belief transcendence
Richard Rorty My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
ambition ego vision
Werner Herzog Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
ambition frustration men
Samuel Fuller Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.
ambition thinking people
Wangari Maathai There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
ambition home limits
Wangari Maathai When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
ambition men intelligent
W. H. Auden Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
common learners single today
Diana Oblinger I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.
common disease following infectious seen
Ali Khan What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.
common deal great
John Prescott have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.
common deterrent gets longer
Jed S. Rakoff I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
common-humanity cities differences
Rob Bell That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...
common investment very-good
Vladimir Putin We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.
common-sense may sound
William Kingdon Clifford We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
common cases company
Sam Altman The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
common-sense prejudice common
William Hazlitt The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.