[Vision2020] Installment # 52 Ambition
Jeffh
jeffh at moscow.com
Fri Feb 25 22:08:55 PST 2011
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> Ambition:
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> ... an earnest desire for achievement.
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Ponderables:
> At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would
> have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it
> would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.
> Anna Quindlen Journalist, Novelist (born 1953
> Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a
> burning desire to achieve.
> Wilferd A. Peterson Author, Businessman (1900-1995)
> Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition
> is the warmth and activity of it.
> François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Writer, Moralist (1613-1680
> Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
> Henry David Thoreau Naturalist, Author, Philosopher (1817-1862
> The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't
> be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
> Elbert Hubbard Philosopher, Author, Publisher (1856-1915
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