Typically ambition is a good thing, it's something that drives you to achieve your goals and improve yourself.
But blind ambition is when someone becomes so fixated in their ambitions that they ignore everything and everyone around them. They become blinded by their own ambition, or at least inflicted with tunnel vision. This causes them to neglect taking care of themselves and their relationships.
But blind ambition is when someone becomes so fixated in their ambitions that they ignore everything and everyone around them. They become blinded by their own ambition, or at least inflicted with tunnel vision. This causes them to neglect taking care of themselves and their relationships.
(Three friends, Carl, Joe, and Rick talking, sitting at a diner table. Carl is extremely tired and his clothes are messy)
Joe: Holy shit Carl, you look bad. You look like you haven't slept in 3 days, and your clothes are a mess. You okay there? What the hell happened? You gotta take care of yourself man!
Carl: Don't... matter. Yeah... I spent... eh... 3 days straight... without sleep... renovating... my coffee shop... so what? I have ambitions... Joe... it's gonna be... the best coffee shop in the whole city!
Rick: Hey Carl, we've been calling you over the last few days and you haven't responded until now. I get that you're trying to improve your business, but you can't let your blind ambition destroy your life!
Carl: Hey... shut up... screw you... I'm not gonna... let you... get in... my way... of... *Carl slumps down and falls asleep on the table*
Joe: Holy shit Carl, you look bad. You look like you haven't slept in 3 days, and your clothes are a mess. You okay there? What the hell happened? You gotta take care of yourself man!
Carl: Don't... matter. Yeah... I spent... eh... 3 days straight... without sleep... renovating... my coffee shop... so what? I have ambitions... Joe... it's gonna be... the best coffee shop in the whole city!
Rick: Hey Carl, we've been calling you over the last few days and you haven't responded until now. I get that you're trying to improve your business, but you can't let your blind ambition destroy your life!
Carl: Hey... shut up... screw you... I'm not gonna... let you... get in... my way... of... *Carl slumps down and falls asleep on the table*
by ngicecream March 27, 2023
"Ambition by proxy" refers to a situation where someone delegates ambitious tasks, projects, or goals to another person without actively participating or contributing to the effort themselves. This term implies that the person is seeking to achieve success or recognition vicariously through the efforts of others, rather than taking on the challenges directly.
When my boss constantly assigns me high-profile projects but never offers any support or guidance, it feels like he's practicing ambition by proxy, wanting the glory without putting in the work.
You know when your wife comes up with ideas for projects for you to do but doesn't plan on helping at all? That's ambition by proxy.
You know when your wife comes up with ideas for projects for you to do but doesn't plan on helping at all? That's ambition by proxy.
by B-Riii March 23, 2024
The instinctual human desire to immediately drink another ice cold beer upon completion of an ice cold beer.
"It is very difficult to control my gentlemen's ambition."
"My wife hates my gentlemen's ambition."
"Concealing my gentlemen's ambition becomes more difficult and tiresome each passing day."
"Nothing better than indulging in a little gentlemen's ambition alone in my garage while listening to my favorite Daughtry album."
"My wife hates my gentlemen's ambition."
"Concealing my gentlemen's ambition becomes more difficult and tiresome each passing day."
"Nothing better than indulging in a little gentlemen's ambition alone in my garage while listening to my favorite Daughtry album."
by Ambitious Gentleman March 15, 2024
Stepping on and using every virtuous friend you could have had in your future only to be left with fake people just like you who are ready to rip your throat out just like you did to those friends you thought were lesser than you. Eep.
My ambition led me to be a huge people user who only cared about what I got from people not what I could give them to succeed in their lives. I need to keep my ambition in check.
by notjuggs_justAj March 11, 2022
Ambition (the bad kind) is when someone will do anything to get what they desire.
Adjective:ambitious
Adjective:ambitious
Banana: Did you see the news?
Potato: Yeah. Something about some rich dudes friend killing him because the friend thought the rich dude was too ambitious.
Banana: I personally think the friend was ambitious.
Potato: Sometimes ambition changes the way people think, and make them do things that they will regret later on.
Potato: Yeah. Something about some rich dudes friend killing him because the friend thought the rich dude was too ambitious.
Banana: I personally think the friend was ambitious.
Potato: Sometimes ambition changes the way people think, and make them do things that they will regret later on.
by SirLatinStudent November 18, 2021
Hym "Half of my ambition has already been attained and regardless of whether or not I'm lazy I've had greater results than anyone will ever have. You are only able to deny, de-legitimize, and trivialize until I get that money and not a single person is willing to give up the life of their child just to withhold sucess from someone who has already suceeded. Much like child murder, this was over the second I decided to do it. It's been over for years. You are fumbling desperately to stop the bleeding from your freshly cut throat."
by Hym Iam January 04, 2025
A variation of the phrase "by trade" that states that one is not only a practitioner of a subject matter, but is also not actively trying to become one.
"I'm not a structural engineer by trade or ambition, but that building looks just about ready to flop over."
by Inlovewithabsol March 02, 2024