Sentence examples for ambition I think from inspiring English sources

"Ambition I think of as a kind of curse".

"In a way that is quite distinct from ambition I think.

This pretty well summed up the nature of ambition, I think.

"Angela was nine years older than you; was she the focus of the same kind of paternal ambition?" "I think it was directed in a different way.

Her gratitude is genuine, but equally she is too honest to deny her ambition: "I think there's a nonsense about, 'Oh, I'd much rather play smaller venues.' Why? I'd much rather play the Albert Hall, in a fabulous place with a Steinway that makes my piano player feel like Rachmaninov.

She was surprised the policy had come from the Conservatives: "Although it would be very nice to pay everybody what they want and what they need... and it's totally fair to have that ambition, I think it may well have a big effect on every high street in the country".

The first time I heard Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, say that women lack ambition, I thought, "She's an executive, not a researcher.

Never one to be modest about my own ambition, I thought that I would be able to work my way up to the C-suite in a relatively short period of time.

In terms of our grandchildren's ornithological ambitions, I think we have a tough job on our hands.

Given the calls for austerity around the entire country, and the poverty of Mississippi in particular, will the splashing out affect Mr Barbour's potential 2012 ambitions?I think Josh Marshall has this exactly right: "You have to be deeply, securely, and no doubt permanently encased in the DC cocoon ever to have thought that Haley Barbour was a serious presidential candidate.

Shelley's conception of herself as an author has also been recognised; after Percy's death, she wrote of her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea".