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What Were Your Ambitions?
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Or should I say dreams? Anyway, at 66, I've decided that I'll never ride a Derby winner,play for the Harlem Globetrotters, become a justice of the Supreme Court, or compose my first symphony (be fair, Schumann was over 40 when he wrote his).
What youthful ambitions did you have? And did you get close to achieving any?
What youthful ambitions did you have? And did you get close to achieving any?
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By the age of 10 I knew what I wanted to do. Interesting earlier comment about ambitions being easier with family support. For me it was exactly the opposite; the total lack of support or even interest just made me more determined. While the experience was pretty rotten at the time, the fact that my hobby (future career) was something I needed to retreat into was...
11:40 Thu 08th Aug 2013
Yes, seadogg, they were. Not altogether to my immediate taste, but they "grow on you". He was such a perfectionist, and it shows. I always feel that Beethoven just wrote; he instinctively felt what was right and didn't care what anyone else thought; whereas the equally difficult man, Brahms, really worked to achieve a result, and did care.