Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself. There is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of any emperor before him, he had greater difficulty in stifling the disapproving voice within him. The motive of his ambition was the craving to stifle his better self.
Otto WeiningerStichwörter: ambition action escape conqueror leader emperor genious
Only making a living is not living.
Krishna SaagarStichwörter: life success ambition leadership
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
Ini-Amah LambertStichwörter: motivational inspirational ambition humour ideas personal-growth business economy pastry chef entrepreneurship investing personal-finance baker stock-market shares equity-investment
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.
Paul SabatierStichwörter: science ambition metaphor fallibility improvement scientist scientific-theory scientific-progress destructibility swedish-academy-of-sciences
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