Ambitious Quotes - Page 12

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.

Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.