Over-Ambition Quotes

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

You're certainly aware of your strengths and limitations, but I'd say I probably err on the side of trying to go too far and then get disappointed with myself and how it turns out.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

Your ambition outweighed your talent

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.