Solomon Schechter Quotes

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

When you're young, you want to do everything. You want to go out and find girls; you want to have a drink - there are a lot of things you want to do. But if you want to make it to the top, there are a lot of things you can't do.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

It's difficult when you want it all.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is they don't know what they want.

Avoid trivia.

I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.

It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?

My talent is I understand what I want.

It's super easy to do what Conor does. He earned something. Then, he looks over the fence - he looks for something new - and it's very easy to be motivated for something new.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.

Direction is always on my wish list.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

You have to know what you want to get it.