Quotes About Achievement

I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

As a first-generation college graduate, I know I would not have been able to open all the doors Morehouse College provided for me if it were not for the Higher Education Act of 1965.

'American Idol' opened up all the doors to where I am now.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

My backpack is signed by three members of The Doors. I did a song with Robby Kreiger, John Desmore, and Ray Manzarek. I made my dream come true.

When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.

I just don't think enough players realize the power of these programs and the doors they open for you if you go about your business right and take advantage of being at great school.

I am very happy that the doors have opened for sportspersons. But I think the first Bharat Ratna should have been given to Dhyan Chand because of what he has achieved.

Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.

If I was to get money, that's the first thing you would get: a '96 Impala.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

The first thing I bought when I was 14 and started working was a crystal bear. I thought it was so glamorous and sparkly.

'Scream' was the first thing he'd ever written that had gotten made, and I'd been in Hollywood for less than two years.

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.