Quotes About Achievement

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound

Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.

Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else. You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing

The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.

Rich, but not Trump-rich.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

In the end, the satisfaction which all of us seek, it seems, can come only from our discovering that we really have molded our life into whatever we want it to be.

But all men die--as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements. -Istak

We learn from joy but also from grief; we learn from achievement, but just as much from failure; and what we learn from grief and failure is, after a while, to be grateful... All of us, young and old, learn more from obstacles than from the smooth path and from bracing ourselves against sudden harsh winds than from the undisturbed weather.

I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.

You never know how far you can travel until you start walking.

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses.

Third time is the charm

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Not only did he want this for himself, but after his recent interaction with Tiana, Naveen had a burning need to show her that he, too, could prosper. Seeing how hard she worked to make her restaurant a success made him want to do the same in his job.

Make that an H and an S for Hot Shit.