Ambitiousness Quotes

#1. One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.

Susan Sontag

#2. God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

#3. Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.

Rajneesh

#4. You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

Anne Lamott

#5. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

Chanakya

#7. Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting, which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises, and smells!

Carlo Carra

#8. A girl wearing a red dress in a forest will be some strange vision of unexpected eroticism, but a girl wearing a red dress on a catwalk will be highly predictable.

Nicholas Pegg

#9. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,

Noam Chomsky

#10. Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

Philip K. Dick

#11. The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

Vikas Swarup

#12. The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

Juan Enriquez

#13. I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#14. I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Daley Thompson