I've led two small organizations with global ambitions: Realizing Rights, in New York, and now the Mary Robinson Foundation Climate Justice, in Dublin.
It was overarching ambition realized through the meticulous details of horn lines, backup vocal strategies and rhythm-section blueprints.
That description threatens to undersell a book that leaves virtually no New York obsession unmined: made wealth, inherited wealth, real estate, art, design, philanthropy, society, thwarted ambition, realized ambition, eccentricity.
His make-no-little-plans ambition, realized (for once!) in the design of Chandigarh, the new capital of Punjab, in India, seen in plan, drawing, film, photograph, and an arresting six-by-eight-foot wooden model, built by a cabinetmaker and hung on the wall like sculpture.
In the tournaments the ordinary player sees his own utmost ambitions vicariously realized.
"The upside," he continued, "is financial gain, and dreams and ambitions being realized.
And if I was initially judgmental about their ambitions, I realized it was more complicated after seeing it up close.
Suppose that in 10 years, Teran's ambitions are realized and Q is a multibillion-dollar company with a million employees worldwide.
A Smart Bet In an understanding of why Jones's super-size ambitions, regularly realized off the field, have been largely unfulfilled on it, it is useful to know how he made his money in the first place.
