Quotes About Accomplishment

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

Suddenly, I was plunged back into an avid learning environment, starting at the bottom and working my way painstakingly up the mountain. The thrill of learning and accomplishing stimulated me so much that the work was pleasurable.

Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.

Vanez led me to the Hall of Khledon Lurt to get something to eat. The vampires there applauded when they saw me and crowded around to tell me how well I'd done. I made light of it and acted humble, but inside I felt like a hero.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

Talk does not cook rice. —Chinese proverb

If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that's the list I really want to be on.

If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.

I had to so something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him.

I had to do something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

You don't have to like it, you know. All you have to do is to do it.

It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. Would 'twere done.

For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules' labours...

I have made more bishops than anyone since St. Augustine.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.