Tag: ambition
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Ambition vs Appreciation, below the surface, and enjoying work
“Sensible people get paid for doing what they enjoy doing.”
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Acting upon ambition
“To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.” Steven Pressfield We feel those stirrings of ambition, but often we quickly shut them down. Who has time…
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The disease of ambition
“The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others.” David Whyte I have been pondering David Whyte’s thought-provoking chapter on ‘Ambition’ in his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. It…