Henry Moore Quotes

I set really high expectations.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

I always have high expectations for me.

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

You have every right to set yourselves targets and whether you achieve it or not is entirely a different matter but at least you have to be ambitious and set yourself challenging goals.

I live for the high expectations.

I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.

I'm not here to be mediocre.

I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.

As stars, we need to take risks, and I was up for those challenges.

I'm anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen.

When I dream, I dream big.

I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.