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“The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.”

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Author:Eric Barker

“If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.”

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Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.”

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Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

“I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.”

Ambitious Greedy

Author:David Mamet

“If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”

“Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.”

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Author:Jay McInerney

“Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.”

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Author:John Lahr

“In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“I suppose that I am ambitious.”

Author:Antonio Banderas

“I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.”

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Author:Chris Evert

“One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.”

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Author:Bobby Flay

“Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.”

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Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.”

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Author:Yvette Nicole Brown

“New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.”

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Author:Candace Bushnell

“Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.”

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Book:The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar

Source: The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

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Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?”

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Author:Charles Cumming

“I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.”

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Author:Darren Criss

“I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.”

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Author:Darren Criss

“When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?”

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Author:Tucker Carlson

“I'm really ambitious.”

Author:Jourdan Dunn

“Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.”

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Author:Peter Diamandis

“I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.”

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Author:Elizabeth Debicki

“I'm not really very ambitious.”

Author:James D'arcy

“I've never been ambitious.”

Author:Mireille Guiliano

“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.”

Source: A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States

“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”

“I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.”

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Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.”

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Author:Vincent Gallo

“I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.”

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Author:Katherine Helmond

“Anybody can be ambitious.”

Author:Chris Hughes

“Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.”

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Author:Tom Hardy

“To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.”

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Author:Chantal Kreviazuk

“Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?”

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Author:Kathryn Minshew

“I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.”

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Author:Kelly Macdonald