A Quote by P. D. James

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

P. D. James

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P. D. James
English - Novelist
August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

Georges Simenon

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Robert Breault

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

Leonard Cohen

Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

Odilon Redon

To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

Stephen Russell

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

Robert Langlands

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

Susan Sontag

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

Cris Mazza

Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

Tallulah Bankhead

A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.

Ilya Kabakov

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

Brian Clough

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Eden Phillpotts

I achieved my ambition early in life.

Andrew Ridgeley

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.