Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.