Quotes About Achievement

Thinking it's impossible makes it so.

We did it!" says Draculaura. "It wasn't perfect," Frankie says. "Eh, perfect is boring.

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Doing your best is more important than being your best.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself

Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, "Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups," I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted.

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs.

Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!

Most of the time, their balloon zipped across that grass lik eit

And it seemed so easy! Sure, she fell on her face a few times, but once she

I figured the teacher offered me the candy to shut up Claire and Molly and to make me feel good that I accidentally got all the questions right. But it was no accident. I knew them all. Every single one.

So I did. I strained. I reached. I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs. V cracked up.

You work real hard, and what do you have to show for it?

and helped bring them a championship!

We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.