Ambition Quote by Rohinton Mistry

“World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps”

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You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

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What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep…

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“What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read…

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Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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“But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.”

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“And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.”

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“In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain." "And later?" "Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.”

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“God is dead," said Maneck. "That's what a German philosopher wrote." She was shocked. "Trust the Germans to say such things," she frowned. "And do you believe it?" "I used to. But now I prefer to think that God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern…

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“Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it…

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“I've done lots of jobs. Right now, I'm a hair collector." "That's good", said Ishvar tentatively. "What do you have to do as a…

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If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to…

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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

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I'm hungry and ambitious.

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“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.”

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I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition…

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Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides.

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“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,…

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