He says he has never really considered himself ambitious, everything in his career has happened unplanned, but now he does have a specific ambition.
Dishes sound so exciting that one wants to try almost everything on the ambitious menu, where first-rate seasonal products are featured along with more familiar fare.
He was not complaining, he wrote, because they were cheerful, hardworking and ambitious, "everything many of their British counterparts are not".
But as with everything on this ambitious mission, nothing is guaranteed.
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.
Things on the plinth have gone smoothly so far and yet One & Other is, above almost everything else, an incredibly ambitious logistical feat.
"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.
A cynosure of everything forward-looking and ambitious in urban design, it represented to her, almost alone, the apotheosis of the "super blocks" that destroyed the "hurly-burly" of city life.
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.
