Quotes About Achievement

I am merely an amateur; being referred as a lyricist is a far fetched dream for me, and I feel I don't entirely deserve it yet.

I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

Being driven helps; if you look at any athlete or entertainer, they're all going to come to times where, if it's handed to you and it's easy, then it's not worth having, and it hasn't been easy.

I never had a belt handed to me as a gift.

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.

I'm a big fan of working for things. If everything was handed to me, I wouldn't appreciate it.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I didn't handle success all that well.

I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.

You're going to be successful or you're not going to be successful. You have to handle success and not being successful in the same way.

I think my first World Championships, I handled it well. My goal, just like any other meet, was to come out and win.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

It's something to be proud about when I'm done, to look back at my career and know I've handled myself the way I wanted to - that my son can look back at my career and be proud of his dad.

We're focused on ourselves and winning our games and handling our business. We'll let the chips fall in place.