“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.” PeopleCultureSocialOne ThingMediaAmbitionClaimsSocial MediaEnthusiasmConferencesImperativesUtopianAcquiescenceChipotle Author:Astra Taylor
“Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise.” PeopleFirstsSocialStuffAmbitionBuiltPullingGrounded Author:Rachel Sklar
“I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingKindMayLittlesCertainOpportunityIndividualForceSocialWaitingStageAmbitionConceptsWaiting For You Author:Ella Baker
“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
“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.” WayNeedsPersonsStillsSoulBodySpiritSocialUnderstandingImpossibleAchieveBecomingAmbitionOrdinarySlaveryIntimateTrappedCommerceUnderstanding Each Other Book:The late Mattia Pascal Source: The late Mattia Pascal
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” HandsCoursesOpportunitySocialLevelsBrainPathSecurityComfortTasteBehaviorAmbitionUniqueEmpathyConstitutionCuriosityPatternsAbstractSeatsGenesThirstTemperamentNoveltyClicksAptitudeLeversWiring Author:Steven Pinker
“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.” PeopleWellsWarRealProblemDreamHandsSocialHalfLibertyPovertyAmbitionNotionOppressionIdeologyOur TimeFedsNurseFashionableGrievanceSocial ProblemsGrandiose Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.” WorldHas BeensEnoughCharacterScienceSocialPathSourceHigherAmbitionDiscoveryDirectConnectedFlightHeightDistinctionHonourPossessedEaglesReptilesAscendingAdvances In Science Author:Humphry Davy
“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.” KindTruthPoliticalForceSocialReligiousEvolutionAmbitionTasksNotionFinancialMeaning Of LifeProductiveDogmaMysticalDeep DownPloyReligious Dogma Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.” MeanChildrenWholeDreamMovingSocialDarknessTeachingDangerousCreationDependsEgoAmbitionStructureAlcoholWhole LifePoisonSubtleMarijuanaMoving InLsdSocial StructureLife Ambition Author:Rajneesh
“I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.” IfsEndsCareFormSocialChanceLeaderKeysAmbitionDemocratReformI CareMobilitySocial Mobility Author:Nick Clegg
“The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.” SocialNatureTalentAmbitionDeterminedLandscapeTilt Author:Eric Hoffer