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• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Action

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, Creative, Failing

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• David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.

  David Lipsky

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books

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• First, this is a great job, and i'm excited about it." "Second, i'm ambitious, but i can succeed almost everywhere." "What I can't do anywhere is be with you." "Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline. It's easy. Incredibly easy.

  Tammara Webber

  Jobs, Decision, Firsts

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Sexy, Husband

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

  Russell Conwell

  Money, Ought

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• Back when I was younger,
  Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger.
  Some say I dream too big,
  And my dream gon' take me under.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Dream, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: National Anthem, 2010

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• The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

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• Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

  Stephen Spender

  Ambition, Vanity, World

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• It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  Lucian Freud

  Morning, Giving Up, Paint

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• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Heart, Roots, Forever

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• Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Hate, Safety, Succeed

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• But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

  Mary Stewart

  Power, Men, Threat

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Sex, Distance, Adventure

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• I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

  Gavin Friday

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

  Jon Pareles

  Ambition, Skills, Jazz

  "Review/Jazz; Wynton Marsalis Takes a Long Look at Slavery". www.nytimes.com. April 04, 1994.

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• If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Way, Talent, Moments

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• Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Good Things, Brilliant Minds, Very Good

  "Entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki doesn't accept failure" by Edward Iwata, abcnews.go.com.

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• There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and dreaming that they will find nowhere else. The ‘five movements’ of Integral Dream Practice will encourage many readers to follow the steps outlined, and integrate dreamwork into their own lives. This book will be an instant classic in the field.

  Stanley Krippner

  Dream, Book, Practice

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.

  Michael Waller

  Loyalty, Support, Political

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Winning, Mind

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Nature, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

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