“Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.” PeopleWantRunningNextAchieveAmbitionSightAmbitious Book:The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma Source: The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma
“I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.” WantWellsDoeHumourAmbitionResponsibleSexyIntellectCharacteristicsFrustratingDefiningMy Ambition Author:Eva Mendes
“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.” IfsWantGivingMomentsDesireSufferingVoiceHealingComfortConflictAnxietyAmbitionHearingWhat You WantScreensProjectionAlleviate Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.” ThinkingWantWritingReasonEnjoyAmbitionPagesConcernedDifficultyMarkSentencesMythBlockStrainWriter's BlockFamous Writers Author:Gore Vidal
“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.” WantAnxietyAmbitionLaysFloatsPorch Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel