When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. . . If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you can, you want to try to do something that people haven't done before and give people something that they haven't seen.
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible. . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?. . . It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.
Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back at their lives they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equalled by no other. Oneness of purpose, ambition, and love which can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths.
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal. . . and then die.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.