A small wooden ladder leans against a cardboard crescent moon with a brass compass at its base, in navy and saffron tones.

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Bryant McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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Wanting something isn't the same as doing something, says Bryant McGill. He treats ambition as what a person actually carries out, not what they merely intend. Without action, he calls it fantasy, a lovely idea that never leaves the head.

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