Ambition Quote by Alain de Botton

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Henri Poincare

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

— Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

— Barack Obama

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only…

— Judith M Bardwick

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.

— Anand Mahindra

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken