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• Anybody can be ambitious.

  Chris Hughes

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• Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

  Tom Hardy

  Littles, Matter, Milk

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• Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fighting, Ideas, Guy

  "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Successful, Long, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.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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• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Children, Amelie, Great Things

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Want

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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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• In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

  Maya Angelou

  Order, Two, African American

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.218, Modern Library

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• I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

  Hayley Atwell

  Has Beens

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• I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Girl, Blessed, Awards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has nothing to do with the fantasy image that goes along with it. You have so many people complaining, "It's not how it used to be." If you look for specific things and you don't find them anymore, that's disappointing. But that's just your disappointment, it has nothing to do with the city. I think it's a nice place-harsh at times, and so on, but beautiful nonetheless.

  Urs Fischer

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

  Warren Berger

  Beautiful, Thinking, Might

  Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Asking Questions, Interesting, Perfect

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• Be ambitious about things that last.

  Bob Goff

  Lasts

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 18, 2014

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• Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Heart, Journey, Impact

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• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Bars, Raises, Raising The Bar

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

  Darren Criss

  Fall, Goal, Lap

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• I'm really ambitious.

  Jourdan Dunn

  "'Why are the catwalks so white?'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, People, Goal

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