Quotes About Achievement

There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.

There's a lot of similarities with everything I try to do with my cricket - it's no different now to my business. You want to be as good as you possibly can. You get out of bed every day to try to become better. The same applies with Hublot - they want to be the first to achieve things.

When a film becomes a hit you can't take all the credit, and similarly when it doesn't do well you shouldn't worry.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.

I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

Football - a simple game really, yet generally, in the game, we make the simple things seem harder. But it's those simple things that get you to the top.

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

The simplest, most impactful question that you can ask an athlete, or ask anyone, is 'What do you want to accomplish? What's your goal?'

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

What I am humble and proud about is that I was able to show a path, simply to demonstrate what could be possible with 8,000-meter peaks. Now that the paradigm has shifted, more people can relate to that possibility, and it should be easier next time to conceptualize and achieve it.

Scoring can be simply a matter of confidence. Sometimes it happens easily.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Next morning I went over to Paul's for coffee and told him I had finished. "Good for you," he said without looking up. "Start the next one today.

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.