I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Ambition An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before but as far as it was possible for a man to go

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.