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Staying power is important, but success has many more elements than ambition. Talent, vision and just plain luck play a role too. Perhaps the greatest ambition a person can have is to be a complete human being. That's what I will teach my children...
Sometimes what we call ambition is simply talent so great it cannot contain itself. Mozart, Einstein and Bill Gates come to mind. But in other cases ambition is just greed. Many of the famous folk in your story fit the latter category...
...antics off it?made him a modern icon, held on that day. But last Friday he lost the final round to multiple organ failure after complications triggered by a lung infection, aged 59. Even generations unborn when he worked his soccer magic lamented the loss of a great sporting talent...
...soccer's minnows, and so never graced the final rounds of the World Cup. Had he done so, many believe he would have passed Pel? as the greatest of all time. He helped Manchester United become the first English Champions of Europe. But Best's story is one of talent beyond any other, yet talent unfulfilled. The demons that drove him to drink meant he was in decline from the day he left Manchester, aged 27. He played for lesser clubs, including three in North America. Though he lost his skills, he never lost his humor: once asked...
...Thank you for selecting Paul Farmer, "America's most celebrated doctor for the poor," as one of TIME's Global Health heroes. He possesses not only the selfless ambition to fight medical inequality in our world but also the ingenuity and talent to create and apply practical solutions to health problems. As a future physician, I am inspired by the achievements of Farmer and all your other Global Health heroes. People often talk about medical problems in terms of finding breakthrough cures and medications. Your report has given me a greater appreciation of the distinctly different challenge of making medical...