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  • My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. -- Hilary Mantel
  • I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. -- David Friedman
  • I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise. -- Brendan Gleeson
  • According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers. -- Jay Leno
  • When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. -- Michael Douglas
  • It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. -- Annette Funicello
  • Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? -- Robert Gottlieb
  • Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. -- J. G. Ballard
  • Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father. -- Joyce Banda
  • Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. -- Pat Riley
  • There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends. -- Dave Grohl
  • I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice. -- Heather Bresch
  • It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. -- Abigail Spencer
  • I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition. -- Jimmy Cliff
  • When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path. -- Virginia Postrel
  • One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. -- Samuel Dash
  • When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void. -- Tracey Emin
  • The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. -- David Herbert Donald
  • Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction. -- J. G. Ballard
  • As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling. -- Arjun Rampal
  • Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted. -- Jay Samit
  • My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman. -- Audrey Hepburn
  • My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. -- Mason Cooley
  • I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor. -- Val Kilmer
  • Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
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