Quotes About Achievement

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

The principles you know determines what you get

The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable

There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing ''Perfect'' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life

The band had accomplished what we set out to do and I felt really good about what we'd done, so it wasn't a sense of incompletion or that sort of gnawing to it. I thought, 'Hey, we did pretty good.

It doesn't necessarily have to be about getting anywhere, but about getting through the process of fulfilling your own possibilities.

It meant nothing to us if we were popular or not, or if we sold either a million or no records

The revolution had been largely successful, but as it turned out, the struggle was much more fun than the victory.

Chabon's success can be traced back to three requirements: talent, luck, and discipline. "Discipline," he says, "is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Literary talent is an accident of birth, like the ability to spot four-leaf clovers, and about as meaningful in the absence of hard work.

I guess the basic reason I run is that I think a body, like a brain, should be used, stretched, forced to its limits...I feel sorry for those who will never know the desperate pound of 180 beats per minute, or the golden afterglow of recovery from it. The body, like a flying machine, can be operated with greater enjoyment, poise, and confidence if one has explored its limits.

I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But

She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything was going smoothly and perfectly and was surrounding them in glorious balance.

Success makes a lot of bad shit go away. So

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luck could be a fleeting thing. It had to be earned and then guarded with everything you had.

Murphy personificada, tío. Tras un esfuerzo gigantesco, Bosch logró alzar la vista hacia Rourke.

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vergüenza volver a casa, o bien ganaban tanto que

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.