The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don’t tend to be driven by work ambitions.
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification – education, hard work, success, and ambition – are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I’ve done so far. But it’s not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
The best job a man could have would be a chef. They’d understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
I’ve always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions – I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.
I guess I don’t have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don’t know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that’s much more important.
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history – no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, ‘Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.’
I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you’re left with is your ambition.
The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose West Ham. London is also closer to my wife’s side of the family – so provided her more help to raise the kids. Everything made sense and I’m extremely happy.
The ambitions for Thatgamecompany are very exciting to me.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she’d like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.
What makes ‘Pootie Tang’ the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it’s a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.
The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man’ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s… I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it’s very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it’s how we tell long stories.
I don’t want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
I didn’t become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It’s not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
My ambition didn’t grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
It’s been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition.
I don’t have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.
Let’s just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.
I wasn’t really interested in doing television. I don’t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
‘Keeper’ is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
My ambition from day one in this sport has been to become a world superstar.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It’s simple.
Russia – having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it’s pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he’s been very good at acquiring it – political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living – and earning a living.
‘Titanic’ made me want to tell stories… To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams… It came at a very troubled period of my life.
Your ambitions – don’t limit them. Where do you want to go, and what would be required of you to grow into that? Put yourself together a plan, and develop the skills to get there.
It’s okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
