Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.
You can always imagine the unexpected and strive for it. You may never get there, but it's always a good thing to have.
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
I have to be honest and say that I never really feel like there's one person that I really want to cook for. I just want my food to always get better and always be evolving and for there to always be movement in what I make. I would say I strive for that more than anything else.
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.