"Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life."

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Source : "Goldman Sachs' newly minted billionaire CEO Lloyd Blankfein grew up in the projects of Brooklyn" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2015.

Lloyd Blankfein

#Ambition Quotes #Voice Quotes #Strive Quotes

“The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]”
“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
“I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.”

Source : "The Way it Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin".
“Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.”
“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
“Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.”
“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”

Source : "Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King".
“Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.”

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