I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn’t like that feeling.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It’s a reminder to stay on top of my game. That’s not a place I want to go back to.
Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions.
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I’m not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.
That’s my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.
It will be up to Congress to check the president’s ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, ‘Weird!’
I just aspire to pick people up. That’s my ambition.
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish – I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.
My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book ‘Is You Okay.’ My mama always told me to say I wanted to be a corporate lawyer, and today I am much closer to being a Tooth Fairy than I ever was a Corporate Lawyer… so hah hah hah hah.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they’ve always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.
My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what’s really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans have been creating for thousands of years in order to explain or control what’s happening in the world.
We have continued to advance our global ambition with acquisitions that fill in the global footprint, such as Dabo in Dubai on the marketing side, Smithfield in the U.K. for financial PR, Ergo in Germany for corporate reputation and public affairs, and Position in Colombia to add scale to our Latin America business.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they’ll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it’s not what they wanted at all. I don’t want to be rich.
The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.
Who’s more likely to succeed – someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you’re an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn’t thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That’s always a good ambition because you’ll never totally hit it.
I don’t look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don’t have that ambition.
Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
I didn’t have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn’t have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn’t know where to put it.
I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.
You can’ t help being a musician because you’ve grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don’t have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it’s high, it’s good – but it’s escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
Lincoln’s stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
I’m not totally altruistic. I’ve always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there’s this pressure.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.
I don’t like guys who are conventional. I’m an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women’s right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
I’m a traditionalist, a family man. I love my kids. I believe I have brought them up the right way. They are all very different: they have different drives, different ambitions. They are never going to be me. They are going to be themselves.
Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents – that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough – that you can make your dreams come true.
If you go to Africa and you’re white, you’re probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don’t have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it’s all too superficial for me.
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world – hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one’s greatness of soul.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn’t cover it. If you cut me open, you’d see it.
I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
