Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Ian Campbell

The title has been our ambition since day one and now we have to go out and clinch it. Then I will celebrate properly.

Celso Amorim

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

Andrew Miller

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

E. O. Wilson

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth.

Rajneesh

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

Rajneesh

Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

Rajneesh

Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Rajneesh

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Colin Firth

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Colin Meloy

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.