Quotes About Achievement

É o preço que se paga, minha querida. Não dá para deixar sua marca sem coletar alguns egos ao longo do caminho.

Podría compararse este tipo de obra con un puro trabajo manual que debe cubrir cierta cantidad de espacio en un tiempo determinado, o con una larga ruta con un gran número de etapas. Cuando se ha completado una etapa, no hay que volver a hacerla; y cuando se ha recorrido la ruta entera, el artista se libra del cuadro.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Maybe she hadn't saved the world but she had made a major improvement.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

I hated them because they had something I had not yet had, and I said to myself, I said to myself again, someday I will be as happy as any of you, you will see.

our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream.

It's hell when you're too good to make money.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

he tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42

I was gifted, am gifted. Sometimes I looked at my hands and realized that I could have been a great pianist or something. But what have my hands done? Scratched my balls, written checks, tied shoes, pushed toilet levers, etc. I have wasted my hands. And my mind.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers except for the luck of the draw - parents with enough money to point you toward a more generous death. of course, some come through brilliantly, but there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.