"I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work."

-- James Vincent McMorrow

#Ambitious Quotes #Want Quotes #Mediocre Quotes

“The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.”
“This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.”
“People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.”
“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
“Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.”
“Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.”
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

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