“I come up with new ambitions all the time - and the coolest thing is, I think of something I want to do, and I don't really imagine it as "Oh, I've never done that." I think of it as, "Oh, I haven't done that yet." I literally believe I'm going to do everything I set out to do, which is a pretty amazing feeling.” ThinkingWantBelieveDoneFeelingsImagineHavensAmbitionCome Up Author:Tyler Oakley
“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
“When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.” IfsWellsLongDoneHavensAmbitionLong TimeRealization Author:Garrison Keillor