Lack of Ambition Quotes

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

Nothing is so great and clear a proof of unfitness for greater and nobler actions, than a mind which is seriously occupied with trifles.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.

I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems. They back away from challenges. Ironically, they back themselves into the biggest problem of all ... being broke, or close to it.

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.