| ...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein Ambition |
| More from Albert Einstein |
| When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein |
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| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein |
| It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein |
| Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein |
| A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Albert Einstein |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein |
| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein |
| More in the Ambition category |
| "We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." Anonymous Ambition |
| Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey Ambition |
| "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." William Blake Ambition |
| "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Les Brown Ambition |
| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Burton Ambition |
| All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad Ambition |
| At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali Ambition |
| What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development. Joseph Morrell Dodge Ambition |
| Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambition |
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner Ambition |
