“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.” UseIndividualTeachCreativeCrazyAmountHealthyAmbitionNegativeMadEndlessManageInsanityOppositionFeedbackScrutinyDisheartenedNegative Feedback Author:Criss Jami
“Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.” WayWantFeelsHeartSoulFeelingsHomeFormDesireGoalCan DoCreativeKnowingAmbitionIntentionPursueClarityBurningMost PowerfulChasingAffirmingLife Affirming Author:Danielle LaPorte
“There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.” IfsCreativeAmbitionSelfishness Author:Kris Kristofferson
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.” WayMeanGrowthBehindsCreativeDemocracyEssentialsAmbitionIdealsDemocraticNotionImpulseInitiativeVitalityStandardizationDemocratic Ideals Author:Ida Tarbell
“I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.” CreativeFameAmbitionBe CreativeLapDumpedCarrying OnClamor Author:Bryan Adams
“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.” WantMindRealityLawDesireForceCan DoRealizingVisionCreativeExpressionAmbitionConvictionAccomplishImpressionPsychologicalProportionResolutionIntensityImpressSubconsciousSubjectiveVowRegisterVigorSubconscious Mind Author:Orison S. Marden
“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.” SometimesFeelingsGuyGirlGoalInterestCreativeAmbitionSmartVicesGenderLikesDislikeOrgansBe CreativeAthleticVice VersaBeing SmartWork In ProgressGoals And AmbitionsSmart Guy Book:A Work in Progress: A Memoir Source: A Work in Progress: A Memoir
“The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a bamboo and they'll plant it in your anus and just let it grow. So patient. Man, watch out for China, I say. They have all the ambition as we do but none of the heart.” MenHeartHumorFunnyGrowsWatchesCreativeAmbitionMethodPlantPatientChinaTortureBambooAnus Author:Kristen Schaal
“I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.” CareThreeCausesCreativeStageSeriousAmbitionProjectsCharityPermanentPhilanthropyWebsiteFundraisingThree Friends Author:Edward Norton
“Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.” PeopleTryingLongArtTwoMatterReasonPurposeIndividualCreativeAmbitionConscienceSakeTyrannyUrgesHaving Hope Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.” EnjoyStepsCreativeModernAmbitionRemainsBe CreativeEnjoy Life Author:Natalie Massenet
“Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.” ForcePowerfulCreativeAchievementAmbitionExtraordinaryGreedCoreConstructiveExtraordinary Achievement Author:Jim Rohn
“It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business” PeopleCreativeAmbitionAdvertisingCripplesPedestriansCreative BusinessLack Of Ambition Author:David Ogilvy
“I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I also wanted to be an Author and Write Great Things. I've always tried to combine the analytical with the creative, to some extent or another, because I find it hard to do one without the other. I've worked as a tech journalist, social media consultant, and now am self-publishing fiction.” WritingChildrenTwoSelfHardWantedSocialFictionCreativeMediaAmbitionScientistSocial MediaGreat ThingsJournalistPublishingCompetingConsultants Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.” FeelsWritingTryingEnoughStoriesCreativeBecomingAmbitionProgramJudgedGraduatesSubmitVagueEssaysCreative WritingStanfordPhds Author:Robert Hass
“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.” FeelsLongI CanHandsRememberSpiritualFaithSpiritualityForceBrainVisionCreativeGreaterConfidenceAmbitionDeterminationDominating Author:Bruce Lee
“When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.” ThinkingMenWritingPersonsCreativityNovelCreativePaintingActivityAmbitionSakeDisappearPrizeAmbitiousBe CreativeNobelNobel PrizeCreative PersonLooking AheadAmbitious Man Author:Rajneesh
“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.” ThinkingSimpleAudienceCreativeTasteAmbitionIntellectualInstinctWideFocusedCleverMinoritiesSophisticatedSuppressing Author:Rowan Atkinson
“The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.” WritingCreativeAmbitionNovelistsCreative WritingSomething BetterPredecessors Author:Milan Kundera
“A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.” WritingDesireLiteratureAbilityCommonCreativeStudentsAmbitionConceptionMeaninglessDiverseCreative WritingWorkshopsWriting Workshop Author:Rachel Cusk