Quotes About Achievement

I didn't know the map of prestige.

the dreams of the head ended up beneath the feet.

Tu sei la mia amica geniale, devi diventare la più brava di tutti, maschi e femmine.

para el que no es nadie convertirse en alguien es más importante que cualquier otra cosa.

I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...

Bons ou maus, os homens acham todos que por qualquer façanha deles tens de lhes erguer um altar, como o São Jorge a matar o dragão.

school. At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn't say so clearly to myself I was glad to be there with Gigliola Spagnuolo rather than with Lila. In some very secret part of myself I looked forward to a school where she would never enter, where, in her absence, I would be the best student, and which I would sometimes tell her about, boasting. But immediately I began to falter, many of the others proved to be better than me. I ended up with Gigliola in a kind

I left. Just now that I was becoming a writer, there was no one in the entire neighborhood capable of saying: What an extraordinary thing you've done.

Segno che forse Lila aveva ragione: la gente di quella risma bisognava combatterla conquistandosi una vita superiore, di quelle che loro non potevano nemmeno immaginare.

how much work I've done and what a long road I've traveled. At every step I could have given in and yet I didn't.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

That he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

If I'd known that to get a diploma and a degree Al you needed to have was free time, to be shut up in a place without worrying about earning a living, and, with discipline, learning by heart pages and page of some books, I would have done it before," he said once, in a teasing tone.

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Even if we're continually tempted to lower our guard - for love or weariness, for sympathy or kindness - we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we've achieved.

mi immaginai che non fosse morta insoddisfatta e sospirai di soddisfazione inattesa.

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.