Unattainable Ambitions Quotes

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

They sell you this present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old, that's what I bought. It's why I did 'X Factor' and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

Even if an ass goes travelling he'll not come home a horse

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.