Criss Jami Quotes About Ambition
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Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.
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Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
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A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.
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