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1. Some people hold that to understand the heart and mind of a person, looking not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Can we say that ambition is more important than accompliment? 2. When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited. How true is the statement? 3. Describe any ambitious person you know or admire． 4. Is it ok to say that ambition is a desire for success，wealth，fame? If yes, provide supporting evidence. If not, write down your own definition of ambition． 5. Do you agree with the statement? Choosing a goal and sticking to it, that is what ambition is all about．; Joseph Epstein is a Chicagoan essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s The American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version. He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974-2002. He is a Contributing Editor at The Weekly Standard and a long-time contributor of essays and short stories to The New Criterion and Commentary．;AIFTTR2;AIFTTR3.1;AIFTTR3.2;AIFTTR4.1;AIFTTR4.2;AIFTTR5;AIFTTR6;Text ;Introduction to the Author and the article; Ambition is one of those Rorschach words: define it and you instantly reveal a great deal about yourself. Even that most neutral of works, Webster’s, in its Seventh New Collegiate Edition, gives itself away, defining ambition first and foremost as “an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power.” Ardent immediately assumes a heat incommensurate with good sense and stability, ;and rank, fame, and power have come under fairly heavy attack for at least a century. One can, after all, be ambitious for the public good, or for the alleviation of suffering, for the enlightenment of mankind, though there are some who say that these are precisely the ambitious people most to be distrusted. Surely ambition is behind dreams of glory, of wealth, of love, of distinct