I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge.… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Powerful is determination You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Despite his mellow, Zen-like demeanor, the appearance of that bookcase betrayed an urgency. A hunger. This thing meant something to him. Of… — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker 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
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
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
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
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological… — Ravi Shankar 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
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
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
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
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
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st… — Shimon Peres 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
“Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science:… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
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
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — Joseph Conrad 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
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
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
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
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
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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