Quotes About Achievement

I was always good at math and science and physics.

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

I was a physics topper in my school and used to encourage my juniors.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

A great physique and a good performance make for a delicious combination.

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'