#ambitious

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. ↗

— Jean Monnet

#everybody #question #whether

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#babylon #big #biggest #different #ever

I've always been a really ambitious person. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#ambitious #been #i #person #really

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#american #among #history #human #human race

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#i #lay people #people #play #quality

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗