Quotes About Achievement

playing a game is a voluntary effort to overcome unnecessary obstacles.

As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.

Life wasn't about deserving anything. It was about earning everything.

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

In many fields a year of focused work plus caring a lot would be enough.

Let whoever can win glory before death.

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

But in just the past hundred years or so, we have turned the tables and taken control of biology. Smallpox, a virus that killed as many as 300 million people in the first part of the twentieth century (far more than in all wars combined) has not merely been tamed but has been eradicated from the planet.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.