Abbas Kiarostami Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Ambition Quotes

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

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I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Gay Quotes

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Desire Quotes