“On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.” LittlesSaidPainFilmActorsFatherHurtActingSceneAmbitionDoctorsUpsetBeesCried Author:Natasha Richardson
“At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.” WritingBookAgeLastsFatherWhiteHalfOur LivesProduceSonAmbitionWorthyTitlesQueensSatBrownEtcComparisonTomsDesksVictoriaBookshelves Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.” ThinkingWantMayDifferentYoungFatherGrowsCommonProveAmbitionWorthyAdmirationLife ExperienceAbsentDifferent LifeProving Yourself Author:Barack Obama
“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.” TryingImportantWholeMightKidsFatherBlackProveAmbitionLeavingArguingAbsentMy AmbitionProve MyselfApparitionsFather Leaving Author:Barack Obama
“The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.” ImportantDifferentKidsFatherParentAmbitionGuiltProfoundAmbitiousSuperficial Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)” HeartFatherAmbitionBetrayalClosetsVipers Book:Styxx Source: Styxx
“a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.” ThinkingMenWaySeemsJobsLife IsFatherBeliefEnergyEasySeriousSonDutyAmbitionCarefulDespiteFriendlyFedsKeep GoingThings In LifeRight WayLimitlessCompoundsWrong WayFed UpUnshakableSerious Things Author:Philip Roth
“Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.” KnowsTryingFirstsYoungSpiritLyingDesirePurposeFoundFatherNamesWaitingSidesDangerAmbitionFirst TimeHatredUniversalHarmonyPreparedAtheistLustPracticalsDoctrineNurseZoosNurseryLegionHaremWait For Him Author:C. S. Lewis
“Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.” IfsMenTryingStillsMatterDoneEnoughHandsEvilFatherConditionsSonBrotherTerribleAmbitionRaisesBraveBlowStrikesSublimeContinuitySimilarityAlphabetBrave Man Author:Saul Bellow
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.” KindDesireCertainFatherWifeSonAmbitionDaughterAffectionBirthdayMy DaughterFathers DayFather SonMother DaughterMother And DaughterOur DaughterAngelicYour DaughterSon And DaughterBaby GirlMom And DaughterDaughter To FatherMom DaughterWife And DaughterFather Daughter LoveLove My DaughterI Love My DaughterBeautiful DaughterThree DaughtersBeautiful Mother And Daughter Author:Joseph Addison
“My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.” WayWantedFatherVisionEconomyDevelopmentBenefitsAmbitionEconomicsStrongerWestBelovedAustralia Author:Gina Rinehart
“It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".” SelfHardDreamEyeFatherBeliefGoalModernHard WorkAmbitionCommitmentCapacityIndiaWideEnterpriseInitiativeScratchesUndertakingsBeliveBelief In SelfEyes Wide Open Author:Anil Ambani
“Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.” HeartMayEarthUsedMotherFatherNamesSpeakHeavenUnderstandingDifferencesWonderDarknessSourceThousandTenAmbitionExpectationsConceptsBoundariesAriseMysteriousManifestationSubtleUnlimitedTaoHeaven And Earth Author:Laozi