"My mother knew instinctively that dreams propel ambition," she said.
"Dreams Propel Ambitions" -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
Kandinsky was alternately propelled by ambition and history itself.
The characters in fiction may be invented, but the concerns and the passions that propel them love, ambition, anger, fear, curiosity, desire, loneliness are ones that everyone shares.
Through examination of the ancient sources, I demonstrate that the increasing need to secure subsistence goods for Athens significantly propelled its ambition for power, causing a fundamental shift from a non- interventionist government policy to one of heavy intervention between the 5th and the 4th centuries BCE.
Michael Pitt plays driver Jimmy Carmody, whose ruthless ambition propels Nucky Thompson, played by Steve Buscemi, further into organised crime.
Shackleton was a restless man propelled by inexhaustible ambition and seductive charisma.
"As an individual," he confessed in his Nobel Prize lecture, "I have not been content just to let others translate these ideas into practice". And that ambition propelled him into the fray of making, not merely studying, economic policy.
"Richard's ambition propelled the girls into a celebrity lifestyle," says the narrator of the 2002 DVD "Raising Tennis Aces: The Williams Story," a film that was authorized by Richard Williams and that glorifies him as father, coach and inspiration even as it reveals his tight control over his young daughters.
Yet the Rolling Stones were jokers not afraid to take themselves seriously, and that unself-conscious ambition propelled them above the awkwardness of their appropriations, freed them to speak unironically and to claim an exalted place in the tradition they first entered as interlopers.
