Quotes About Achievement

He'd played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could play wide receiver for the Harvard varsity football team.

defied the odds;

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.

any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

He shouted into the phone, "That is fuckin' awesome. I mean fuckin' awesome. I fuckin' mean fucking awesome. You are one Big Swinging Dick, and don't ever let anybody tell you different." It brought tears to my eyes to hear it, to be called a Big Swinging Dick by the man who, years ago, had given birth to the distinction and in my mind had the greatest right to confer it upon me.

We sat there wrapping our heads around what we'd done." Six years after the storm, Uccellini described the advances in weather prediction from about the end of World War II as "one of the major intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.

if i followed any of the rules, i wouldn't be where i am today

Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He was a great believer in exercising his mind and the minds of his workers and felt that without a quota he probably wouldn't have achieved very much. His personal invention quota was a minor invention every ten days and a major invention every six months. To Edison, an idea quota was the difference between eating beefsteak or a plateful of Black Beauty stew.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past; what matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered and reinforced.

I am a petty god at the moment. You will find me more lordly and benign when I achieve the position of a greater god.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.

I regard knowing as an active comprehension of the things known, an action that requires skill. Skilful knowing and doing is performed by subordinating a set of particulars, as clues or tools, to the shaping of a skilful achievement, whether practical or theoretical. We may then be said to become 'subsidiarily aware' of these particulars within our 'focal awareness' of the coherent entity that we achieve.

Shame seems to be the going price of achievement, particularly the achievement of knowledge or beauty.

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.

2015 was simultaneously the year in which I consumed the most popcorn of my life and the year in which I received the most praise from my dentist.

Back in '75 I had five albums in the top 10. Simultaneously. And among them the number one album and the number one single. And my name was mentioned twice or three times in the Guinness Book of Records.

The only sin is mediocrity.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.

If you win in New York - that Frank Sinatra song - you are a god. You are a king.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.