Salvador Dali once said "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." The meaning of the quote is that there's no meaning in life without something that pushes you to your goals in life. This quote is valid because having ambition is having a motive to complete your set goals to be successful is clearly seen in the book MY Time Nighttime is time by Mary Higgins Clark. Higgins Clark provides many verity of views of ambition. Such as the ambition of a man who wants to murder all the women the rejected him in high school, to six characters who had ambition that was transformed into success and finally an ambition of a detective to find the answer to a murder without knowing that there's more that are going to follow.