#ambition

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff. ↗

— Katie Price

#business #chance #continued #growing #growing up

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#does #feeds #others

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

#according #anything #because #become #been

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ↗

— Charles Cotton

#below #blessings #go #i #like

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#ambition #ambivalence #career #felt #frankie

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. ↗

— Anna Held

#attained #deserted #due #enough #fact

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#ambition #doing #eileen #feldman #i

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

— Alex Kapranos

#bands #good #good thing #like #me

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

#ambition #intense #just #like #me

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#contemporary #hundred #reader #readers #should