Quotes About Achievement

The man primarily responsible for the Empire State Building was not trained as an architect, city planner, or engineer. He was not in the construction business, nor in the real estate business. His only direct dealings in real estate were of a personal nature—a mansion here and an apartment or summer home there—until he made the momentous decision to build the world's tallest building.

If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.

Central to this understanding is the fact that schools are not failing. On the contrary, they are spectacularly successful in doing precisely what they are intended to do, and what they have been intended to do since their inception.

At the heart of any school reforms that aren't simply tuning the mudsill mechanism lie two beliefs: 1) That talent, intelligence, grace, and high accomplishment are within the reach of every kid, and 2) That we are better off working for ourselves than for a boss.

when competition is seen as essential to a good life, when winning against one's neighbors is put at the heart of society, business thrives. To win, others have to lose: the more losers, the better winning feels.

Not ortalamas?."; evet, hepimizin bir not ortalamas? var.

She put every ounce of determination she possessed into the song, scoring it in the mode used from the old and wise to the young and foolish. It worked, but just barely.

Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Kurt Gödel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental – indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Gödel's achievement." —John von Neumann

One curious thing about Apollo 11: while it was happening, no one knew for sure exactly where Eagle had actually landed!

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Coaching is unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance.

You tend to get what you focus on. If you fear failure, you are focused on failure and that is what you get.

If there was only the "right" way to do something, Fosbury would never have flopped

The Great American Novel.

Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat.

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.

He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.