“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentLastsMovingCoursesHouseWishLevelsRoomsEnvironmentGreaterDoorsComfortAmbitionRichesEnormousSettlingGentlemanSurroundDifferent Levels Author:Chris Murray
“If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.” IfsGivingComfortAmbitionWorth ItNot Worth ItUnbalanced Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“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
“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.” PeopleKnowsBelieveChildrenStoriesFacesValuesKnow HowConditionsStrangeComfortAmbitionAdultsResourcesUniversalOur ChildrenPlentyFragileFiniteAccustomedGod KnowsScarcityDoritos Author:Michael Chabon
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.” InspirationalMotivationalChangeImaginationCitiesCreativityWonderfulAwarenessComfortDirectorsAmbitionMindfulnessDiscoveryInnovationInstinctIntuitionSelf DiscoveryBelieve In YourselfWildernessFinding YourselfAbout YourselfDiscoveringComfort ZoneChanging Your LifeKnow YourselfMaking ChangesFollow Your HeartSoul SearchingTrust YourselfBe True To YourselfHave CourageListen To Your HeartScreenwritersPush YourselfCreativity And InnovationListen To YourselfLife Is An AdventureHunchesLeave Me AloneLife AdventureImagination And CreativityIdeas And CreativityInspire CreativityInspiration And CreativityInspirations Being YourselfImagination CreativityDiscovering YourselfRisks In LifeInnovation InspirationDiscovering SelfGraduating High SchoolRisking Your LifeCollege GraduationSelf EvaluationInstinct IntuitionTrust Your IntuitionClairvoyanceLight Of My LifeDaring To Be GreatDiscovering ThingsDiscovering The WorldHigh School Graduation CongratulationsHigh School Senior InspirationalBest Night Of My LifeCourage To Leave Author:Alan Alda
“The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.” TurnsComfortAmbitionExcuseBotherAspirationZoneAspireComfort Zone Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts