Sentences with phrase «own blind ambition»

To avoid blind ambition, Abbott suggests having an end goal and working backward to address the biggest potential problems such as getting a technology to work or marketing the product.

From the blind ambition of Wilson to the revolutionary zeal of the starry - eyed Upton Sinclair (who at one point muses, «by removing Capitalism we therefore remove evil»), the characters are so self - assured that they are psychologically, morally, and spiritually unprepared for the demonic storm that is brewing within their midst.

[Newsday] • Columnist Juan Gonzalez, whose paper strongly supports a third Bloomberg term, grumbles: «The New York City oligarchy has spoken — and the peoples» will be damned... This goes beyond blind ambition.»

«We, therefore, appeal to true lovers of democracy, the civil society and the media to join hands with us to ensure that all forms of impunity, lawlessness and blind ambition are controlled and dispensed with.

What does sexual preference have to do with running the City Council for private gain and blind ambition - nothing.

Co-starring Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, and Ari Graynor, the film is an incredible look at just how far blind ambition and a bottomless bank account will get you.

These guys have a blind ambition and a clear plan to do what they love, and they make it happen.

The former skewered both sides in America's abortion wars, and the latter scrutinized blind ambition and why it wins.

It is an improbable success story that looks at one man's dream, warts and all, and shows what blind ambition, bottomless pockets, and fearlessness can achieve.

Perhaps one does not want to be judged in those terms, rejecting success if it comes wrapped in uncaring and blind ambition.

Not exact matches

In the midst of masses hypnotized by drunkenness, whoring and ambition wander a few men of integrity: Maxwell, a former religious, now a bricklayer and community leader; Bazalar, the pigman; Antolin Crispin, the blind musician; the mad prophet Moncada and his consumptive sidekick, Don Esteban de la Cruz.

But used poorly — i.e. blaming, egocentric, negative, blinded by ambition or separation — it will create unhappiness for us.

Something has to change and i hope for it coz i love arsenal and am not blind i can see we are currently the fight best team in the league and more and more teams are showing ambition while we are just happy with salvage value.

Ronald Koemanis now coaching the Premier League club Everton as it was Danny Blind who was selected as the new coach of Netherland but Koeman is hoping that he is taken into consideration for coaching the national team as this is one of his ambitions as a top manager.

His problem is that he's so blinded by his political dogma and ambition that he chooses to ignore the niceties of the rule of law.

This detailed account of his life also gives us the opportunity to see behind the man, to follow him not only to his successes but also up the many blind alleys and towards false conclusions: his ambitions, his mistakes and his foibles, his wheeling and dealing, and his disappointments.

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Later the two take on a snooty new surgeon whose ambition has blinded him to simple common sense.

It presents a sobering picture for parents who might also become blinded by career ambitions and financial stability — especially when those seemingly worthy goals are gained at the expense of building loving family relationships.

Recasting James M. Cain's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all - American ambition is both unremittingly hard - boiled and sumptuously emotional.

The lead players» weaknesses — hubris, hypocrisy, vaulting ambition, blind loyalty, Catholic guilt — are entirely predictable, but the story's complex storylines are not.

Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the «blind» grandfather driver with his seeing - eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish - Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus.

Julie Evans, Sharon Horvath, Beth Reisman, David Fertig, Thomas Nozkowski, Frances Barth, Martin Puryear, John Dubrow, even, in his own cloistered way, Neo Rauch — refuse to kowtow to a tradition that would place blinders on ambition.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Exhibiting works from the peak of the artist's fame juxtaposed with his lesser known work offers the opportunity to appreciate Pollock's broader ambitions as an artist and better understand the importance of the «blind spots» in his practice.

It occurred in conditions they didn't understand and completely misjudged, mostly because they were blinded by the ambition of one person, John Franklin.