“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantWholeShapesAmbitionInspiredThemeContributionBeing The BestMeaninglessConquest Author:Rob Morrow
“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.” WritingBookWholeAmbitionPagesSentencesCursed Author:Joseph Joubert
“Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.” DifferentWholeBecomingAmbitionChampion Author:Daley Thompson
“From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.” MenMayStatesWholeInfluenceExampleAmbitionThrownOne ManDisorderCourtesyRebelliousCourteousPerverseness Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.” GivingLooksWholeTermAlivePaintingAmbitionMarkSurfaceConstructsIntervalsMy Ambition Author:Andrew Forge
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsHumansSaidIdeasRealWholeSeemsEarthStuffAliveInformationAmbitionDeserveMereBrandsWhat IfFoundersArtifactsHuman Thought Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget