Quotes About Achievement

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.