Daily Inspiration Quote by Rebecca Miller

Ambition, in Rebecca Miller's framing, isn't the glossy engine of achievement that self-help culture likes to sell. It's pathology: something that spreads quietly, rewires your priorities, and convinces you it's helping while it hollow-outs your capacity to stop. Calling it a "disease" drags ambition out of the realm of virtue and into the body, where urges can be compulsive, irrational, and hard to diagnose from the inside. The line lands because it makes success feel less like a destination than a symptom.

"And it feeds on itself" is the cruelest part. Miller captures the loop: the win that should satisfy becomes fuel for the next win, and the lack of satisfaction gets mistaken for proof you need more. It's not hunger; it's appetite without a shutoff switch. In creative industries especially, where the metrics are unstable and the validation arrives in bursts, ambition can metastasize into an identity. You don't just want the film to work; you want to be the kind of person it proves you are.

The subtext is a warning about how ambition colonizes intimacy, time, and moral flexibility. If it "feeds", it consumes something: relationships, health, craft, even joy. As a director, Miller would have seen how ambition is rewarded publicly while its costs remain private, dressed up as dedication. The quote functions like a bright, uncomfortable diagnostic: if your drive is self-sustaining even when it makes you miserable, it's no longer a tool. It's in charge.