Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jen Kirkman

I'm really ambitious about is being a really good comic and doing it for the rest of my life and getting really big. Not really famous because I want fame or attention, just a little freedom. So, that's where I'm ambitious.

Board members in 2004, passed an ambitious plan to ensure the entire collection is stored properly and to change the exhibits on display. We have the ideas, manpower, buildings and historical items - it's the money we lack.

We are as ambitious as we have ever been and most people at the club will be a part of it's future. However, in all walks of life, people leave jobs and that creates opportunities for others. The issue of new contracts will be dealt with in March.

We are as ambitious as anyone but we are also cautious. If we finish in the top three in the constructors that will be good.

We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage them.

We got into the game pretty late. Standard forms of marketing are not proving effective, so we've had to come up with a more ambitious marketing plan.

We aspire to stage the best golf tournament in the world. We think we're at an elite level already. But we think we can get better ... this is one of the most ambitious things that's ever happened.

Paul Burke

Trying to bring Lee back was an ambitious one. If he had said yes it would have been like Christmas come early.

Andre Previn

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Jennifer Ehle

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

Eric Ries

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Louis Kronenberger

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

Martha Plimpton

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

Margaret Fuller

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Michelle Bachelet

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

Lauren Velez

I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.

L. Neil Smith

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

I'm utterly flabbergasted. What Sato did is just not on. It was a hopelessly ambitious move. It was reckless and I'm very annoyed.

David Howell

I'm very ambitious and winning events like this HSBC Champions tournament is the sort of stuff I want to be doing,

In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always right (I refer specifically to Mr. Manley in the fifth grade at Hamilton Elementary), but school boards are often used by the politically ambitious as a step up the ladder. The politically ambitious rarely become kindergarten teachers.

Narendra Modi

I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

Gene Sperling

If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated.

Edgar Winter

I'm really indebted to Johnny. He was my first musical hero. Were it not for him, things would have happened quite differently. I can envision myself as maybe a starving jazz musician. I never had any inclination towards fame or stardom. I just love music. Johnny was more ambitious and outgoing. I was the weird and quiet guy who played all the instruments.

Eric Morecambe

I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively with him. You'd write a piece and he would change it to what he knew he could do brilliantly. He was modest, never ambitious or pushy, but he knew what he did well.

It was a really ambitious machine that they attempted to build and it was effective in destroying our democracy for quite some time. That is, he and his associates brought themselves down because they attempted to abdicate a lot of the rules of our democracy.

Roger Donaldson

It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can,

It's highly unlikely we would have the facility available at the beginning of the season. We're looking at November, but again, that's an ambitious schedule.

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

David Mamet

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

John Battelle

In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

Susan Bysiewicz

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.