Quotes About Achievement

The truth is, if you like long hours in solitude, emotional turmoil, constant self-criticism, and bouts of heartrending disappointment, you'll make a good writer. And if you can actually tell an engaging story, you might just make a great one.

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)

A VISION is a precise, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving that goal.

They converted their dreams into goals, their goals into steps, and their steps into tasks.

Fulfillment—the Third Ingredient Essential to Producing Passion. Fulfillment is the third ingredient necessary to produce a passion. The good news is that you don't have to do anything extra to develop this ingredient. It happens automatically as you complete each step toward your dream. Each time you complete a task, step, or goal, you think to yourself, "Wow! I did it! I'm that much

Dreams without clearly defined goals, and goals without clearly defined steps, will never be achieved expeditiously or efficiently, and will rarely be achieved at all.

Ganar de verdad en cualquier situación es conseguir el mejor resultado posible.

A lo largo de sus vidas, cada una de estas personas habló de la importancia de tener una visión clara de lo que querían conseguir antes de ponerse en marcha en la búsqueda de sus consecuciones.

UNA VISIÓN es un objetivo preciso y claramente definido, con un plan detallado y programado en el tiempo para alcanzar dicho objetivo.

To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

If you're interested in mastery," says University of Cambridge, England, neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian, "you have to learn this lesson. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

Where–if anywhere–do our actual limits lie?

Mesmo se você falhar em meio a algo ambicioso, é muito difícil falhar por completo"

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

The basic requirements were sky-high intelligence and unquenchable ambition. A more elusive criterion was one's Googliness.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

LSSU] was the kind of school where students had a lot of pride. Not the raucous strain of sports pride... And not academic pride... It was more of a geographical pride. Kids were proud to live in that tough wilderness setting, and the best way to prove your mettle was through achievements in the wild.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.