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The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.
If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.
I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.
My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.
I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.