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I'm over the oscar thing. i feel that if you really want an oscar, you're in trouble. it's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. if you want the oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. it becomes very unattractive. i've seen it.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. but that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... today, i am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.
The others in the dorm thought i wanted to be a writer, because i was always alone with a book, but i had no such ambition. there was nothing i wanted to be.
I have ambitions to do a broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. i'm a big musical theatre geek.
I tried not to think about my life. i did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. other times in my mind i defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to god's law, the holy ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the spirit of god; and i believe many a man is praying to god to fill him when he is full already with something else.
If it's in you to climb you must -- there are those who must lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. i'm so glad i have such a lot. and there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. it does make life so interesting.
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said anne dreamily. "i don't exactly want to make people know more... though i know that is the noblest ambition... but i'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if i hadn't been born.
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