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That's the movement at the moment I'm driving, and that's the movement and ambition of my life.
These are leaders who, in addition to being highly capable, possess two important qualities, and they are humility and ambition.
The motivational component of compassion creates ambition for greater good.
So I had an ambition to discover what could be understood from this uniquely human relationship between television programs and the human conscious.
Nothing like this existed in China, where there was one monolithic state covering a fifth of humanity, and anyone with any ambition had to pass one standardized examination, which took three days and was very difficult and involved memorizing vast numbers of characters and very complex Confucian essay writing.
But my parents did not allow the circumstances of their bad upbringing to determine the ambition and dreams for themselves and for their children.
So I've been traveling the world, looking at different alternatives of construction 3-D printing, trying to find technology that will help me deliver on my ambition.
I don't need a husband who wants to be." (Laughter) Anyway, as I plunged through my 20s ever more aware of how unobtainable the first part of my childhood ambition was, it was that second part, being able to successfully communicate to others whatever knowledge I was gaining, where the futility of my quest really set in.
And so if males can enhance their reproductive success by being high ranking, you get automatically the ambition to be high ranking in the males.
I have a magnificent wife, and together, we have such crazy ambition.
I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the means of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.
In a recent email to me, she explained, "A person should have some ambition while she is young so that in old age she can look back on her life and feel that it was not lived to no purpose."
The exciting thing is that I see students at my school with ambition grabbing at opportunity.
You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens.
Because it was cheaper, she lived with a boyfriend who displayed his temper more than his ambition.
Does any other emotion reveal to us our aggression and our hideous ambition and our entitlement?
Those include abilities at tasks requiring physical strength and stamina, ambition, and the power of novel reasoning in a circumscribed situation, such as figuring out the structure of DNA, best left to scientists under the age of 30.
If I tell you that just one of those targets is to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty, you get a sense of the ambition.
It's allowed us to increase our ambition in what the foundation can do quite dramatically.
But sometimes a father's love can be misconstrued as controlling, and conversely, the scope of his son's ambition can seem like some pie-in-the-sky fantasy.
The PET scan here shows over 20 malignant tumors jumping out like fireballs, melting away my ambition.
I don't carry grudges, ambition, vanity, none of the deadly sins that are not even worth the trouble.
Again, I think it's a strong ambition but it is a plausible one.
My team and I have the ambition to reach one billion by 2020.
That I'm standing here telling this story is proof that we all can accomplish great things, through ambition, through passion, through sheer stubbornness, by refusing to quit, that if you dream something hard enough, as Sting said, it does indeed come to pass.
And in every single culture across the globe, men placed more value on physical attractiveness in a partner than did women, and in every single culture, too, women placed more importance than did men on ambition and high earning power.
I'm a business professor whose ambition has been to help people learn to lead.
And when I look at this building and then think about hospitals today, what amazes me is this building's ambition.
Infidelity shatters the grand ambition of love.
And so sometimes, when I pause to think about my professional struggle and huge ambition, it's hard to think about that in contrast to the vastness of the universe.
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