Pico Iyer Quotes

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.

One day I'll know what it's like to be a manager.

My husband is a high-level executive at one of the largest media companies on the planet. He leads a worldwide team of more people than I can keep track of. He worked his way up from an assistant with drive and determination.

If I was happy with three trophies, then suddenly I had to have four. If I was happy with four, then I had to have five.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

I hope to be back in management in the next future

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

I'm young. I'm 22. I'm still growing. I just feel like it's time for me to go up. After this fight, there really wouldn't be a reason for me to stay. I'm just going to go up and give the lightweights hell.

You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.