As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
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In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
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Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
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Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
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I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
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Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
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Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
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It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
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Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
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When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
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