“I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.” MightUsedActingPrinciplesAmbitionFoundationHockeyThank GodNaiveNhlPlaying Hockey Author:Vincent Piazza
“Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.” WorldSelfDoneUsedSufferingNationsRaceKnownAmbitionMethodIntentionDefeatSelf ConfidenceMediumsPropagandaOrganizedWarfareGood Intentions Author:Marcus Garvey
“Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.” KnowsDreamUsedWatchesAmbitionFlowRiversForgottenStreamsBoredomRecallsConservatismPasturesGreener Author:Van Morrison
“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsBelieveUsedExistenceDestinyDemocracyAtheismModernMastersAmbitionInstrumentsPositive AtheismLifestyleObjectivesSoleEmperorSaviourFreedom And HappinessModernisation Author:Wei Jingsheng
“Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.” IfsFirstsWellsUsedHavensAmbitionGuiltyFollyChicagoUps & DownsFebruaryUndertakerLexicographerMorticians Book:THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH Source: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.” MenHas BeensRealMatterHardFactsUsedPurposeResponsibilityHard WorkAmbitionEthicsMen And WomenConcernWorkersSelfishGreat MenGood WorkWork EthicHustleSlothHard WorkerGood Work EthicSelfish Ambition Author:Criss Jami
“I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.” WantLifeArtKidsAgeUsedModernTypeAmbitionEnvyOld FashionedGrandpa Author:Hal Boyle
“I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.” ThinkingWarUsedNationsCausesInfluenceEconomicAmbitionCurrentsPsychologicalDefectsCauses Of War Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.” WantNeedsImportantRealityUsedPassionTaughtAmbitionUsed To BeSuitsAmbitious Author:Seungri
“Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and going to work, preparing, using our ambition, and, in that process, some people earned more and earned it sooner than others.” PeopleRealHardUsedProcessAmbitionStriveIncomeInequalityPreparingGoing To WorkGet AheadIncome Inequality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.” UsedGuyAmbitionWork OutComic Author:Joe Rogan
“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
“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
“Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.” KnowsUsedSimpleViewsAmbitionContentmentBalanced Author:John J. Geddes