A Quotes
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“Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Ambiguity is one of the most powerful qualities of photography as an art form—a photograph describes, but does not tell.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so to find a new discursive space, a space to wander around those subject matters, is a real challenge.”
“Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.”
“Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.”
“Ambiguity is your ally: an interpretive dance with universal truths, not an observation post. An artist enlightens; the interpreter chooses to bathe in that light. Or, fearing being 'wrong' or lacking critical thinking, they await spoon-feeding. Being Irving The Explainer is not the artist's job. You don't go to an art gallery to ask a painter what their painting means (they have wisely left the scene of the crime!). You either get it or you don't, and it should wash over you and be appreciated either way. Impose the tyranny of explanation upon it, and you may kill any meaning, if there is any to unearth. Artists may not even know their intentions when putting something out into the cosmos. Ambiguity, then, is the fertile hinterland between The Emperor's New Clothes and the Highlands of Pretentiousness.”
“Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.”
“Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.”
“Ambiguous disappointment often accompanies ambiguous loss. For so long we disappointed each other--drawing close when the other needed space, keeping our distance when the other needed closeness, misreading each other's cues about whether an incident was comedic or catastrophic in the other's opinion, misjudging which of our children needed us most at any given moment.”
Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
“Ambisi mendorong manusia mengatasi semua bentuk kesulitan hidup dan sekaligus tikaman kebosanan.”
“Ambition! A simple word, yet so many multi-prognostics! At the outset, it arouses an array of positive emotions; zeal, success, energy, rise, achievement, forward, bright, shining, higher, respect etc. But there is another side too; defeat, listless, failure, slump, disgrace…and such.”
Source: Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling
“Ambition and contentment are two opposite ends of human nature. An ambitious person will continue to discover his drive and reasons for growth until his last breath, while a contented person finds happiness in what is bestowed upon him”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.”
“Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.”
“Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...”
Source: The Winter Rose
“Ambition and suspicion always go together.”
“Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.”
“Ambition aspires to descend”
“Ambition: Aspiring to be the first person in history to win all Nobel Prize categories.”
“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time”
“Ambition becomes dangerous when it outruns character.”
“Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.”
“Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
“Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.”
“Ambition can be just as much as a curse as it can be a blessing.”
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.”
Source: Bruce: The Autobiography
“Ambition didn’t come without apprehension.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
“Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Ambition doesn’t end on a particular birthday. Own it and live it.”
Source: Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power
“Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.”
“Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.”
Source: Sallust
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.”
“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Ambition, from the Latin “ambire”/going around, was used when a politician went from house to house to ask for votes. Ambition, in its negative connotation, is the strong desire to appear great, not necessarily to become great. The struggle to become a famous person, not necessarily to become an admirable one.”
“Ambition, from the Latin “ambire”/going around, which was used when a politician went from house to house to ask for votes. Ambition is the strong desire to appear great, not necessarily to become great. The struggle to become a famous person, not necessarily to become an admirable one.”
“Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Ambition has no rest.”
“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”
“Ambition has the power to change the fate of success”
“Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.”
“Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.”
“Ambition in Motion (The Sonnet)
Come hell or high water,
Never let caution cripple your feet.
Better to fall hard and learn a lesson,
Than speculate forever with couched feet.
Everything I've achieved is by trial and error,
There was no handbook to aid my mission.
Maps to known paths are available plenty,
But there is no map to uncharted destination.
You are the handbook to your ambition,
Not your background or family treasures.
If you persist long enough, at some point,
Your persistence will outrun your failures.
Better fail than frozen - failure is the foundation.
Failure is the first sign of ambition in motion.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”