Quotes About Achievement

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

We did a good job and I'm just glad I have it for a second time.

Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I don't think I could have dreamt it up any better than how things went, of being at my peak at just the right time, and have everything go my way.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.

There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.