My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.
I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.
I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'
I'm not ambitious; it is clear in my choice of work. I am fine doing a few dance shows in a month to run my household and take care of myself.
The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.
I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills.
I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
I don't think or write from big ideals.
I don't have huge intentions to be some big actress.
Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.
I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.
Even though I had won in other categories, I didn't have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn't expect it.
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.
Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
