I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I’ve aged, the more I’m like, well, maybe I’m not that ambitious.
It’s hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don’t get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.
We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.
You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things – like going to the moon – to survive.
In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision – and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.
I don’t feel like I need or want to apologize for feeling ambitious.
As we embark on something as ambitious as the Common Core, educators must be able to teach to the standards with the necessary support and collaboration and without the sense that there will be dire consequences if students, schools and their tests don’t make the grade.
By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.
I’m very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer – so it’s not like things just fall in my lap.
People say it’s not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.
You have every right to set yourselves targets and whether you achieve it or not is entirely a different matter but at least you have to be ambitious and set yourself challenging goals.
I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real. I’m just saying it how it is – I don’t sugar-coat it. If you are an ambitious person, you want to strive for more. I want to do it all.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I’m much more ambitious than I’d like to admit.
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.
We are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious health targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to avoiding impoverishment from exorbitant out-of-pocket health expenses.
It is our responsibility as businesses to deliver ambitious solutions and technologies to bring us low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable growth.
I write well in LA, because the pressure is off and I’m surrounded by ambitious people who are really encouraging.
People think I’m angry and they’re right. There’s a lot to be angry about. But I’m also empathetic and ambitious and hopeful and happy at times.
It’s not precisely that I’m not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk… much… to go on to the next level.
The privilege I’ve had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale.
Both ‘The Wire’ and ‘Queer as Folk’ had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
I would say that in the 1990s, I don’t think the environment was enough to make anyone ambitious and aspirational. It was a downer, I would think.
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn’t otherwise have. So I’m very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that’s all I want.
There’s the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.
I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.
I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.
I don’t have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don’t connect to the fantastic, and I’m not a comic person – it’s just not my thing, so I’m not looking in that direction – but ambitious films on a big scale I’m very interested in looking at.
I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the ’60s compared to other comic books at the time.
I’m ambitious. I work hard.
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.
I’m not very ambitious, sorry… I don’t get up and think, ‘Today, I shall achieve greatness.’ It’s more, ‘Today I might have Marmite on my toast.’
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It’s one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
I’m very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
In my experience, durable progress must be fashioned out of more than obscured truth, slogans, and empty promises. You do it through hard work. By going everywhere. Listening to everyone. Being honest with people. Being ambitious without indulging in magical thinking.
I’m not a particularly ambitious person.
One has to be ambitious to start writing.
It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything – besides my career – I’d be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I’m a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
I think it’s better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
A lot of women will tell you, especially if they’re ambitious, driven, successful, that it is hard to find men who are secure. There’s a lot of insecure dudes out here.
I’m not ambitious, I never have been; it’s just not in my DNA.
I am a very ambitious girl.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.
Shah Rukh has definitely been my inspiration. He is extremely focused in his work and is extremely ambitious.
That’s where I spent the biggest chunk of my career, having been at Juventus for ten years. That was the best thing that happened to me because it was where I got to know real football, at an ambitious club with ambitious players.
I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
I’m an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That’s the ugly side of why I’m proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there’s a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.
