My Ambition Quotes - Page 6

• I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

  Bob Kaufman

  Ambition, Want, Forgotten

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• 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.

  David Morrissey

  Ambition, Journey, Discovery

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• I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

  Mike McGavick

  Ambition, Political, Political Ambition

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• It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available.

  Todd Haynes

  Ambition, Kids, Technology

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

  Placido Domingo

  Ambition, Demand, Financial

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• My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Ambition, Years, Four

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• From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

  Louise Fletcher

  Ambition, Actresses, Six

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Ambition, Actresses, Chameleon

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• My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Ambition, Fixed

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• I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

  David Brooks

  Ambition, Want, Film

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

  Babyface

  Grateful, Ambition, Luck

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• My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Passion, Ambition, Expanding

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• My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

  Amelia Earhart

  Ambition, Flying, May

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Ambition, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.

  Balthazar Getty

  Dream, Ambition, Focus

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• It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Ambition, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ambition, Keys, Two

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

  Eva Green

  Ambition, Hollywood, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

  Isaac Asimov

  Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, New York, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My ambitions have ambitions.

  Behdad Sami

  Ambition

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• I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Ambition, Mirrors, Actors

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• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Soul, Spheres

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

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• I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Dream, Believe, Ambition

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• I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be rich to the extent that all I care about is keeping my job. I don't care enough about keeping my job right now. That's good. That makes effective at what I do. I don't want to be frightened of getting fired. So to that end I suppose my ambitions are that I spend less than I earn.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Ambition, Care

  "Craig Ferguson: We Need A New 'Late Shift'" by Kevin Kelly, filmschoolrejects.com. August 10, 2009.

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