The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, ‘Mercury’ has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.
I’m desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven’t been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.
I’ve always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn’t going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.
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.
I’m very ambitious, but I also love myself – which means I try to take care of myself.
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
I’m ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that’s the aim with Tottenham – to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
Thankfully I’m not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
I don’t know that I’m going to entirely do cloth diapers. I’d like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can’t say that I will.
Taking on a leadership role doesn’t mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.
If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.
I’m a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I’m a spiritual person as well.
I wasn’t born ambitious, but I am ambitious now.
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
I don’t come from a very ambitious family. We weren’t entrepreneurial. We weren’t hard-working academics, or setting up businesses. But for some reason, when I started doing fitness, I always had this voice in my head telling me to keep going – keep going, and people will eventually follow.
The one thing we have that the other parties do not have is a political integrity. No one thinks you join the Green party because you’re politically ambitious, or have your own agenda.
There are no moral lectures in ‘Lookaway, Lookaway;’ there aren’t even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.
I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I’m not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
I wasn’t very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.
I was very ambitious in my dream of being a pop star.
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they’re on an unemployment line and can’t feed their families.
I’m proud to have led the brokering of the ambitious 2030 climate package in the European Union to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40%, which puts the E.U. ahead of the global pack in terms of commitments.
I’m an ambitious person.
I’m not ambitious; it is clear in my choice of work. I am fine doing a few dance shows in a month to run my household and take care of myself.
I’m not that ambitious chick. I’m not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I’ve just never been that girl. I’ve always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he’s already blessed me with a lot.
If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.
I had this project called ‘Ruin’ in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It’s kind of my ‘Star Wars’. I’m trying to achieve what ‘Star Wars’ did for me as a kid.
I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that’s the reason I’m so ambitious. I felt like I wasn’t appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.
I’m still fiercely ambitious.
The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.
I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?
The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.
I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don’t keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don’t want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.
My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he’d have been pleased if I’d made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.
Here’s the thing about standup directing: not that hard. As I said on Twitter one day, or maybe it was Instagram – sorry, I want to keep my platforms straight – it’s essentially the same five shots over and over again. Seven if you’re ambitious.
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there – this was over 10 years ago, so it’s no one who I work with now or have worked with recently – but he told me that I was too ambitious.
Those who say they’re not ambitious are being disingenuous.
I’ve always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.
It’s always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you.
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them… I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
Coaching England is a huge job, and no ambitious coach would rule himself out completely.
I am ambitious, but don’t think that I’m in a race where I have to run to prove myself or outdo anyone.
My character in ‘Casa de mi Padre’ is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
I just have always been ambitious.
My parents are both professional athletes, so I always grew up in an ambitious way and I worked hard.
Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
I don’t have stars in my eyes. I’m not personally ambitious. I’m very aspirational.
There are few student species more nakedly ambitious, focused, and future-oriented than the average Harvard law student.
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.
Pep Guardiola is a very ambitious manager; that’s a reason why he has been able to win all the trophies he has won in his career.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
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.
Because I’m not ambitious it’s not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.
It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
It is devastating, losing a parent. I don’t really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I’d say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.
I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money – I don’t care what color you are as a woman; it’s difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.
