Gary Gygax Quotes

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin Baylor, Adrian Dantley and Dave Bing, it's tough to pass those guys. So I'm studying, working. My project's not over yet. Hopefully, I get there.

I want to be the best player possible.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and Russia, both of which defined themselves as messianic nations. In both countries too, secular elites delved deeply into apocalyptic and prophetic ideas, giving their nations a millenarian bent.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.

I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.