Quotes About Achievement

I slept with my gold medal.

I nearly slept through my entire senior year. I'm fairly convinced they just gave me a diploma just to get me out of school.

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.

I always had a slight problem in that my older brother is extremely bright. He's a neurophysiologist and a don at Magdalen College, and I always felt I was stupid because I couldn't get anything like the same results as him.

Of course everybody wants to be filthy stinking rich. But we've seen the effect that having that kind of massive success has had on other people musically. I really think that our music has gotten stronger because of a slight level of fear you get when you don't have that kind of success.

I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.

My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible.

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

I realized, statistically, the chances of me getting to the WWE and being very successful were very slim. I always hoped it would happen for me.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

I would like to be No. 2 but never No. 1. When I was No. 1, all eyes were on me. No. 2 slips out the door quietly and makes another great record.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.