Quotes About Achievement

But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

In ten years, you'll be on a stamp / where anyone at all can lick you.

Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it will rain? Good bones, good bones, I coax, wondering how to reward them; if they will sit up for me, beg, roll over, do one more trick, once more. There. We're at the top. Good bones! Good bones ! Keep on going.

Don't think that way, Moira would say. Think that way and you'll make it happen.

It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.

At least, I said, she's got what she thinks she wants, and I suppose that's something.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

It can be argued that the computer is humanity's attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.