Quotes about ambition
ambition popcorn bigs
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. Jodie Foster
ambition intuition forget
Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition. Jimmy Buffett
ambition self discipline
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued. Jim Rohn
ambition enemy left
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
ambition evil shadow
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. George MacDonald
ambition destiny men
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God. George Lois
ambition smell sight
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. Emanuel Celler
ambition abstract description
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. Ellen Hopkins
ambition garden naps
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? Elizabeth Gilbert
ambition world should
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition. John Constable
ambition thinking people
I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant? Joe Bastianich
ambition mean insane
I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based. Lola Kirke
ambition scales my-ambition
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. T. Boone Pickens
ambition men deception
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. T. S. Eliot
ambition thinking issues
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
ambition artist mediocrity
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. Susan Sontag
ambition mean joy
How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige." Rajneesh
ambition frustration moon
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.
ambition goal ego
The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.
ambition roots political
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.
ambition men two
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.
ambition mean somewhere-else
The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.
ambition effort world
Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.
ambition light meditation
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.
ambition animal littles
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. Thomas Jefferson
ambition sleep men
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
ambition law community
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
ambition government design
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
ambition greatness thinking
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is Robert Herrick
ambition fire soul
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls Taylor Caldwell
ambition want no-fear
I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family. Tupac Shakur
ambition want enjoy
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free. Venus Williams
ambition thinking ambitious
Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing. Vera Farmiga