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• If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Way, Talent, Moments

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• Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Good Things, Brilliant Minds, Very Good

  "Entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki doesn't accept failure" by Edward Iwata, abcnews.go.com.

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• There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and dreaming that they will find nowhere else. The ‘five movements’ of Integral Dream Practice will encourage many readers to follow the steps outlined, and integrate dreamwork into their own lives. This book will be an instant classic in the field.

  Stanley Krippner

  Dream, Book, Practice

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.

  Michael Waller

  Loyalty, Support, Political

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Winning, Mind

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Nature, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

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• In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

  Maya Angelou

  Order, Two, African American

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

  James C. Collins

  Ambition, Self, Goal

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• I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

  Sadie Frost

  Independent, Age, Young

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

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

  Larry Page

  Graduation, Dream, Dog

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• A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Ambition, Men

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• I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

  Young Jeezy

  Hero, Ambition, Thinking

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• There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Lines, Want

  "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

  Kim Kardashian

  "The Kim Kardashian Interview: Cleopatra With a "K"". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 9, 2011.

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• I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Names

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Males, Female, Campaigns

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• When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Disappointing, Enthusiastic

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• If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

  Phil McGraw

  Encouragement, Ambition, Want

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

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• I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

  Eva Mendes

  School, Independent, Mind

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• When ambition ends, happiness begins.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, Ends, Loose Ends

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• I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

  Martha Plimpton

  Way, Plans

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