Perception (TV Series)

Kilimanjaro (2012)

Eric McCormack: Daniel Pierce

Quotes 

• Daniel Pierce : Our ambitions and our dreams give us a glimpse of a beautiful someday, and they can help us get through a sometimes-less-than-beautiful today. It's a tricky thing though, ambition. It can blind us to the price of success. It can consume us, leading to dangerous obsessions, or empty hedonism. But no matter how much we are fueled by this natural neurological impulse, ambition isn't carved in stone. Dreams change; And even if we don't get to climb mountains, there's still a chance that we can move them. In the words of those old English poets, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need.

• Daniel Pierce : How bad do you want it? Whether it be a 4.0 GPA, a million bucks, or just getting laid. Ambition drives us all. What William James called the worship of the bitch goddess Success. Now Freud would have us believe that all drives stem from the libido. Sorry Sigmund, success is neurologically determined by one's ability to stay focused on a task. And persistence is a function of an active limbic system.

  Daniel Pierce : Take for instance grid-iron guy here. Clearly his limbic system isn't firing on all cylinders. Either that or his ambition to win the Heisman supersedes his desire to pass this class.