Ambition Quote by Barry Barish

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought…

— Owen King

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

— Joseph Rotblat

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked…

— Jonah Lehrer

I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books.

— Chef Damu

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was…

— Carrie Nugent

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could…

— George Pelecanos