What would you actually change?' Once you accept that your heartfelt ambitions are stupid and pseudy, what are you left with?" But isn't that a cop-out?
I'd had to choose my mental health over my career, and I couldn't fight the feeling that everyone who knew me must secretly be thinking I was lazy, stupid and wholly lacking in ambition.
"WE have made many stupid mistakes, because of our ambitions and because we failed to understand what is going on in the country and the entire complexity of its social and regional peculiarities," Mr. Khodorkovsky wrote in a letter published by Russia's Interfax news service in April.
Which is why Musk's aggrandizing, self-referential ambition is also kind of stupid.
Imagining he has banks "in every country ruled by me", he would still prefer to be in an opium den singing Jackie, his simple ambition to be "cute, in a stupid-ass way".
Ask any city councilman, much less a governor with presidential ambitions, and he'll tell you that was a stupid thing to say.
If you have even an ounce of ambition, do you really want to spend it trying to be stupid?
Because girls can do anything boys can do, although their ultimate ambition is to put on a nice dress and go steady with a stupid jock.
Tim FitzHigham evokes the spirit of a time when there was no finer ambition for an Englishman than to perish in the act of doing something incredibly stupid.
Mrs Garstin was a stupid woman who, disappointed by her own husband's lack of preferment, had focused her ambitions on her prettiest daughter, Kitty.
