I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence… — Donald MacRae Copy Share Image
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“his greatest ambition for England is this: the prince and his commonwealth should be in accord. He doesn’t want the kingdom to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
“Tell me what you think of yourself, show me your estimate of your possibilities, and I will predict your future. Your vision… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love—all that… — Jennifer Dukes Lee Copy Share Image
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Winners are made by not only seeing failure at least once, but also by seeing that overcoming failure is the only way… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person. In the West, being ambitious isn't a bad thing. You work hard and you have a purpose… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Live a true and purposeful life. Take action towards your dream. Share your success and enthusiasm. Make your life worth remembering. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Try doing something challenging with your life and stop giving up when stuff gets hard it just shows how strong you are… — Alexis Oden Copy Share Image
“The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I’m happy that I… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Look not only to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
Don't spend your life looking back thinking what you should have done, the past is just that, but the future is yours… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is important for me to believe in a team that has ambition. I want to go up and work towards something.… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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