He says he has never really considered himself ambitious, everything in his career has happened unplanned, but now he does have a specific ambition.
He was not complaining, he wrote, because they were cheerful, hardworking and ambitious, "everything many of their British counterparts are not".
He joined Google nine years ago, when the brand was on its evolution from agreeable little search engine to terrifyingly ambitious everything-engine: email, maps, operating systems, phones, soon a phone network.
There's no doubt it's going to be ambitious, because everything WeWork does is ambitious.
"The plan would be beautiful and ambitious if everything were in place, because it would be the marvel of the world to return to paradise," said Marta Zambrano, who runs the Ecuadorean International Center, a nonprofit immigrant aid group.
There is no doubt that Rose is ambitious, and "Everything and More" has affinities with the work of another filmmaking artist, Sarah Morris, whose true medium is access to power, whether she's inside the White House or behind the scenes at the Oscars.
In the end, though, it was Bartlett's writing that towered above everything: ambitious, troubling, and true.
But we were energetic, and ambitious, and gave everything we could, and that got us a long way".
Though the group's ambitious music encompassed everything from Chicago blues to German cabaret, their string of pop hits caused them to be dismissed by some critics as a teenybopper act; this deeply troubled Morrison, who craved acceptance as a serious artist.
As imagined by Mr. Morgan their duet is interesting, not fascinating, an intimate lesson in British politics that doesn't shed much light on the one thing people today really want to know, namely how it was that this gifted, charming and ambitious leader sacrificed everything to support George W. Bush's rush to war.
Modi's agenda, though ambitious and encompassing everything from strengthening national security and promoting cleanliness to the ending of government corruption, has a clear focal point, and that is economic reform and growth.
