Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real.… — Ashley Thomas Copy Share Image
I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more… — Britta Phillips Copy Share Image
“I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like… — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to… — Estelle Morris Copy Share Image
When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent,… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
As far as my career goes, I've never really had an opportunity to reflect on what I've done, with taking in the… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge… — Robert P. Crease Copy Share Image
It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really ambitious about is being a really good comic and doing it for the rest of my life and getting really… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the… — Vincent Rodriguez III Copy Share Image
Set ambitious goals and don't be afraid to declare and aim for them. You need to know where you want to go… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image