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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wangari Maathai There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
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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.
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W. H. Auden Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
wish
Mark Richt He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.
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William James If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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Roald Dahl I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.
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Sara Shepard My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
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Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Sarah Dessen Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring
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Saint Augustine Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
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Zhuangzi If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for
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Cedric McGowan James brought it to my attention in one of the timeouts that we had that I needed two more rebounds to get (20). I just worked hard to get it.
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Rasheed Wallace Keep us on the back-burner. We won't lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it's just simmering and it tastes better. When you got that food on the front burner, that's the one you're paying attention to the most, and that's the one that might burn. We're on that back-burner.
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Rick Majerus Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.
attention crave seems
Diantha Harris He seems to crave the attention -- and do well with it.
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Dave Rose He's had some really big games. Like a freshman, he's been a little inconsistent at times. He is a really streaky player. If he gets off to a good start, and hits his first two or three shots, he can take off and have a big game. It'll be important for us to pay a lot of attention to him early.
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Al Groh His move on this position started back in December when we would segment a certain part of the practice just for developmental purposes. That was a position of attention as we started in the spring, and he's given us some positive feelings about that from the way he performed.
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Jack Baker His strong suit was not Congress but rather his attention to farmers and women and families.
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John Swofford Hmm. Information that could have been brought to my attention yesterday .
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Melanie Troxel I think it's great for her and for promoting women in motor sports. She's done a lot of good things to draw attention to women, which is somewhat necessary when you're looking for the funding to run these teams.