"It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree."

-- Beau Willimon

#Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.”
“I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.”
“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”

Source : "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.
“With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.”
“I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.”
“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

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