Patty Jenkins Quotes

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to cameos.

I go to class every day with the future Facebook and Twitter and Google employees, the future innovators and entrepreneurs who might have the next big thing. Knowing that and seeing their success and work ethic makes you want to be successful. It impresses me every day. It humbles me, too.

For me, it's always been about the work - it wasn't about, 'Let's go break some ceilings.' I just wanted to tell an important story and do the best work I can. Everything else is secondary.

There's a part of me that's ambitious.

I am hungry for good work.

I always knew I wanted to work hard at something.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

I don't even think in terms of ambition.

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

I've always been fussier than I can afford to be. I don't just want to do whatever it takes to be successful, I want to do what I consider to be good stuff. If I'm not engaged in something, it doesn't matter what it is and who's doing it.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.