I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a…

Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a…

— Billy Wilder

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

— Diane Setterfield

If you have an ambition, don't be shy! Remove the barriers, take down the walls, break with the routine that's forcing you in a…

— Alina Khadgi

Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this,…

— Renee Zellweger

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

— Karl Kraus

“Contemporaries cannot be good judges.”

— Italo Calvino

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

— Odilon Redon

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong…

— Virginia Woolf

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period…

— David Steinberg

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

— Jackie Shroff

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock