Sentence examples for fire ambition from inspiring English sources

But with 1968 (the phenomenon more than the year), youth emerged as the fundamental health of the being, and adulthood became a malady to avoid or to be cured of; and the ideals of men suddenly changed to match, with versions of play rising to fire ambition and capture the imagination.

A recent escalation in official efforts to stem the influence of Western political thinking on Chinese campuses should only fire ambitions to leave.

Government has a role not just to fire up ambition, but to help give it flight.

My co-author Richard Badham and I wrote about four of them in this HBR article: fire (representing ambition), snowball (accountability), movie (reflection) and mask (authenticity).

It's resentment, I think, that lights a fire of ambition in our tails and drives us to beat our wings on the porch screen, hoping to reach the incandescent glow of fame and fortune.

To win on the sub-continent, to contest two more Ashes series in six months and to try to win the inaugural World Test Championship should fire his ambition for a while yet.

In the November issue of HBR, my co-author Richard Badham and I talk about four metaphors we use as prompts to help leaders spark and sustain change in their organizations and their own lives: fire (representing ambition), snowball (accountability), movie (reflection) and mask (authenticity).

Mr Beazley now says that he is "absolutely fired with ambition" to resume the leadership.

The trip fired her ambition to direct what many consider to be Williams's finest work.

Exposure to recent big-time art, by Jackson Pollock and others, at the Seattle World's Fair, in 1962, fired his ambition.

Winning the French and Wimbledon titles back-to-back, the first women to achieve this since Germany's Steffi Graf in 1996, has clearly fired her ambition.