#ambition

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#levels #lot #nice

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#any #big #i #mainstream #movies

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ↗

— William Eardley IV

#arrive #path #persistence #success #vehicle

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#carried #extreme #great #great minds #idol

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intensity #misunderstanding #river #ruination #water

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

#ambition #book #going #happens #least

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#conceived #destiny #extraordinary #god #him

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#between #depressed #did #existing #gap