"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Work Quotes #Failure Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.”
“I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.”
“Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.”
“I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score.”
“I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.”
“Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.”
“Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.”

Source : Quoted in K C Lindsay and P Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (1982).

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