Quotes by Ambition I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button. Carly Fiorina buttonsreset-buttonambition Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me. Carmen Kass too-muchambitionnew-york You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end. Caroline Myss ambitionpersonalitydream Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs. Carrie Fisher drugambitionpeople Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. Carroll Shelby carambitionrace Your ambition outweighed your talent Casey Stoner talentambition I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West. Cass Gilbert ambitionnew-yorkopportunity In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. Cat Deeley britainashamedambition The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it. Catherine Ingram creativityambitionart Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret. Catherynne M. Valente sadnessambitionsight I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This does not mean I have not found some of them too daunting to read all the way through, but it would seem there ought to be some ambition on the writer's part to create a work that would be "a read" all the way through. If not, all the pleasure belongs to the maker, and that in itself is something, an achievement. C.D. Wright ambitionmeanthinking Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk. C.E. Morgan boredomambitionstruggle We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. Cesar Chavez achievementambitionchange All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese inferioritysinambition Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. Cesare Pavese difficultyambitionsuicide I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies. Cesc Fabregas ambitionwinningbelieve A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense. Chad Harbach niceambitionnew-york America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy. Chaka Khan ambitionamericapeople The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going public. It is effectively a branding event that catalyzes interest. It helps with recruiting, it helps with marketing, it helps with sales. It just helps on many dimensions. I think it's basically a litmus test for the CEO's ambition. Chamath Palihapitiya ambitionexercisethinking There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. 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