Quotes About Achievement

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

What you have to understand is that the first day I picked up a bat I made an impression on my older sister Agnes and my dad. It was about seeing people satisfied by what you're doing. I was creating a fan base.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.'

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

If we win, everybody gets a piece of the pie.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.