Ambition Quotes - Page 26

• There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

  Michael Ealy

  Sympathy, Beautiful, Want

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

  Alex Flinn

  Stars, Writing, College

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• I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

  Pete Townshend

  Family, Mother, Boys

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• The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bruises, Ends, Accolades

  "Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

  Carmen Kass

  New York, Too Much, Intense

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• [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Different, Branches

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Thinking, People, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

  Jessye Norman

  Needs, Talent, Vocation

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• I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

  Vincent Piazza

  Hockey, Nhl, Thank God

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• My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

  Alexandra Roach

  Actresses, Chameleon, My Ambition

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• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Pages

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Talking

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• In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Media

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• My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

  Johann Lamont

  Real, Together, World

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• We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

  Johann Lamont

  Humility, People, Concern

  "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Order, Age, Should

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.158, Routledge

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• Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

  William Merritt Chase

  Succeed, Today, Tomorrow

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• Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

  Ginni Rometty

  Order, Cities, Giving

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• The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Principles, Able

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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Order, Boxing

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• There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Persons

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• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Knowing, Careers

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Eight, Four

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• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Loyalty, Religious, Fear

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.378, Booklassic

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• Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Heart, Mind

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