I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn’t want to be a singer. I didn’t want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.
Our goal in Washington must not be to impose but to expect and assist: Expect the most of educators and students and assist them as they work together to meet those expectations. Rather than tightening our grip, we should set clear, ambitious goals and support innovative local efforts to achieve them.
I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.
I’m very ambitious when it comes to cameos.
Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
I’m ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.
Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers’ directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.
Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There’s no easy way around this.
I’m very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I’m doing, and I want to be happy with myself.
To be honest, I’m not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
I’m not ambitious and I don’t need to work for The Man.
My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.
People tell me I’m very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can’t I do them all?
Under Freud’s influence, many ambitious biographers – not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians – have sought answers in their subject’s childhood.
There’s also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
When we started Angels & Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn’t go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.
‘Lagoon’ is an ambitious novel.
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
I am done apologizing for being ambitious and I stand for all those women who don’t want to apologize just because they are working.
‘Pleasantville’ seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it’s so fanciful.
I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t act. I could dance a little. So what was there left for me to do? Television presenter. That was it.
When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn’t ambitious.
An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, ‘Habibi’ spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, ‘Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.’
I don’t feel 50. I’m still ambitious, and I’ve only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it’s a huge challenge.
I’m not steely ambitious.
I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted ‘Westworld’ to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.
We can tend to be too ambitious when we’re young, and a little blind.
I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president – regardless whether it’s Obama or McCain – will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.
I’m not an ambitious person. I’m very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there’s one thing I really want to do, it’s to serve the people.
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that’s what you did in those days. I’ve never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.
I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What’s wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?
I’ve always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class – no, it wasn’t enough to be the best in the class, I’d want to be the best in the country.
I was a very ambitious, young actor, grateful and getting out there, working hard. I was single-minded in pursuit of my career. I am also the oldest of seven and had this extreme responsibility for everyone around me. I was a caregiver and not taking care of myself as much as I should have.
I was always ambitious – not to make money: to be published.
I think ‘ambitious’ is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn’t I? I’m sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you’re not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.
I’m still having fun, and I’m doing something and I’m seeing the world! I wasn’t massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you’re kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you’re young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Deep down, I’m a small-town girl who has it drilled in her DNA to grow up, marry, have kids, settle down. Maybe I will knock the same theory in my kids’ heads, too. I’m also liberal, a political enthusiast, a bookworm, and the least bit ambitious to pull off a soap drama queen act.
One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it’s applied to women, it’s almost always negative. If a woman is ambitious she’s cutthroat, she’s seen as more unpleasant. Whereas when its attached to a man it’s far less negative.
I’m industrious. Ambitious. I’m like the gay Mitt Romney… That’s a terrible thing to say.
I’m an ambitious player who wants success and I want to win every game in every competition we’re in.
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
My ‘act’ was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
What people admire about Prime Minister Modi is that he is an ambitious leader who is trying to elevate India economically, and enlisting all Indians in that project will make it more successful.
It’s funny. Of all the jobs I’ve been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
It’s not a fault in football to be ambitious, far from it.
I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game – and the thrill of the chase.
You’re not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you’re scared of voicing your opinions.
Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
I have never been terribly ambitious.
The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
