Quotes About Achievement

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!