Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don’t want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie – but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.
For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there’s a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there’s something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake’s raw ambition.
I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
My major ambition is just to stay relevant.
My ambition is to get better as an actor.
My ambition with ‘Redoubtable’ was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A’s and a 4.0 and all that.
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that’s when I realized that I could actually go away.
You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.
It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
People – running from unhappiness, hiding in power – are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around – it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Ambition – it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it’s a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That’s a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
I do have ambition – I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it’s not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you’re not doing that, do something – whatever it happens to be – that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I’d love a big family.
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush’s ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
It’s incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
I wasn’t the typical pageant girl – I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.
My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I’ll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I’m going to try.
You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there’s certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.
We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons… I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That’s his ambition; he’s stated it many times.
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
When you’re young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don’t just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I’m still embarrassed at the word.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
My ambition is very cinema-driven.
As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.
‘Thou shalt not bore’ is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ will be commissioned.
I had found myself a new mission – and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
I’ve learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can’t fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.
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.
I don’t particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn’t to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
