Ambition Quotes - Page 30

• I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

  Pete Townshend

  Family, Mother, Boys

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

  Danny Huston

  Actors

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• You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Mean, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bruises, Ends, Accolades

  "Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Good Things, Seems

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  New York, Too Much, Intense

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• [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Different, Branches

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• I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, Games, Lovely

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• You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

  Peter MacKay

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Thinking, People, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

  Jessye Norman

  Needs, Talent, Vocation

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• You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Writing, Special

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

  Azim Premji

  People, Way, Attention

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• I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

  Vincent Piazza

  Hockey, Nhl, Thank God

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• My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

  Alexandra Roach

  Actresses, Chameleon, My Ambition

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• Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

  Donald Sutherland

  Lying, Iraq, Government

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• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Pages

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Talking

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• In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Media

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• My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

  Johann Lamont

  Real, Together, World

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• We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

  Johann Lamont

  Humility, People, Concern

  "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.

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• My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Fixed, My Ambition

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• There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

  Ruth Simmons

  Leader

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• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  Daley Thompson

  Champion, Different, Becoming

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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