“The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.” RealityUniverseLeftInternetEssentialsAmbitionRadioRetiringParallelsTweetParallel UniverseTalk Radio Author:Barney Frank
“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.” WayHumansSeemsRealizingPowerfulEmotionPersonalityEssentialsDespairAmbitionDrivenComponentsHuman PersonalityMysterious Benedict SocietyPowerful Emotions Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“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
“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23” NeedsFirstsEndsFormLyingDesireProcessLinesVisionProductsLuckyEssentialsDegreesAmbitionConceptsInnovationCuriosityInsightRichesPlanningRadicalThe End Of The DayForesightCocktailsNew BusinessHappenstance Author:Gary Hamel
“If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.” IfsNeedsCharacterBodyMightBeautifulJoySpiritArtistLinesAbilityAnswersGraceIntegrityPleaseEssentialsElementsAmbitionPerfectionDanceDetermineFactorsCombinationPerformingAbstractDancerBalletRelentlessGraciousnessPerforming ArtsBeautiful BodyPerforming Artist Author:Lincoln Kirstein
“When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness” BelievePersonsMatterCertainI BelieveSportsQualityVirtuePrideIntegritySkillsEssentialsAmbitionDignityAthleteStoresModestyConsideringInspirational SportsStatureCompatibleCompetitiveness Author:Donald Bradman
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.” SometimesCharacterGovernmentLawCoursesEnergyCommunityJusticeLibertySecurityEssentialsAmbitionOrdinaryPropertyDefinitionsProtectionAdministrationCombinationEnterpriseExecutivesAnarchySteadyAssaultFactions Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.” PeopleMeanIndividualNationsEssentialsAmbitionFulfillmentTragic Author:Adolf Hitler
“In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.” MindWholePainFormUsedHateOrderPleasureBrainRecordsBearsEssentialsAmbitionConsciousEvidenceBasesAimOrgansLove And HatePain And Pleasure Book:Philosophy and the brain Source: Philosophy and the brain
“The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.” ArtUnderstandingPleasureEssentialsAmbitionImportanceInventionClassroomExamined Life Author:Barbara Kruger