Anna Quindlen Quotes

Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.

I guess I would use one word to describe myself: determined.

I'm ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.

I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

I've always been a focused person who knows how to get what I want.

I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

I was a very driven young person.

You’re always reaching for the next thing. Every success leads to another one because you’re always testing yourself.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.

She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a hustler. Sometimes I call her, and I'm like, 'You need to help me hustle,' and she is like, 'Come on!'