Quotes About Achievement

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.

I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet - try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

Yes, freedom is magnificent. But freedom is hard work.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.

You hit> a goal, you keep a resolution.

If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.

A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.

A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit. Neither a scientist nor a philosopher but a novelist, Lisa Grunwald, came up with the most brilliant summation of this happiness principle: "Best is good, better is best.

The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.

By doing a little bit each day, you can get a lot accomplished. We tend to overestimate how much we can accomplish in an hour or a week and underestimate how much we can accomplish in a month or a year, by doing just a little bit each day.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "New England Reformers

By doing a little bit each day you can get a lot accomplished