Quotes About Achievement

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

I want to spend time with Oprah and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time

One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

The unrecognized genius of our time.

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.