Ambition Quote by Zadie Smith

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

— Zadie Smith

People have this preconceived notion of me. I'm 'Gob' to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.

— Will Arnett

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling…

— James Russell Lowell

“If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of…

— Edward M. Wolfe

Believe in yourself, you possess the inner drive to accomplish all of your desires.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and…

— David Richo

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and…

— Everett Ruess

To live your life as yours it is important getting your subconscious let go of protecting you from the feelings hidng beneath the surface…

— Senoraroy

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow…

— Ron Currie Jr

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

— Anais Nin

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that…

— Oscar Wilde

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

— Nancy Horan