Quotes About Achievement

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

The UFC and WEC didn't give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team.

People always want to talk about Cristiano. He always works a lot. For many people he is the best in the world, but many try to take away that merit.

I was determined to make it big on sheer merit.

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, 'Yeah, I'm a musician. A good one.'

I can only compare myself to the players I was playing against. To say I won the Order of Merit playing only seven events out of 17 was to me a big achievement.

I've always felt all the jobs I've ever got are on merit.

I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

Meryl Streep is awesome.

I really look up to Amy Adams, who I got to work with, Meryl Streep, and Angelina Jolie.

Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.

I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her.

For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

I never thought I would work with Meryl Streep. I also love Cate Blanchett.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

Revival of investor confidence and industrial development is, in my opinion, one of the biggest achievements of my government, given the financial mess which we have inherited from the erstwhile Akali government.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I just want to win. I want to mess up the draft. I don't want the first pick.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.