Quotes by Ambition The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. Francois de La Rochefoucauld objectsambitionappearance I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives. Garth Greenwell ambitionpeoplethinking I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. Garth Greenwell ambitionselfthinking The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. Friedrich Nietzsche envyambitionmen When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. Garrison Keillor doneambitionlong The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition. Garry Kasparov greatnessgrowthambition **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23 Gary Hamel innovationambitionlying At any time the atmosphere in the West could change, for which determined political will I do not see at the moment is a necessary prerequisite. From the sidelines, it seems that he's caught up in his own exorbitant ambitions. Garry Kasparov atmospherepolitical-willambition And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me. Gavin Douglas ambitionspringtime One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint. Gary Oldman ambitionhurtcharacter The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it." Geena Davis girlambitiondream By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead. Gavin Rossdale ambitionjobslying I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong. Gene Autry unclesstrongambition My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. Gene Tunney ambitionsportsorder It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. Gentry Lee ableinfinityambition Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. Geoff Dyer irritationlevelsambition I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on. Geoffrey Boycott ambitionmenpeople The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. Georg Solti awakenedmusicalambition What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind? Friedrich Nietzsche words-of-wisdomvanityambition There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE George B. Cortelyou ambitioncitiesearth«3031323334353637383940»
