Quotes About Achievement

hell, I worked HARD all my life!" (they think this is a virtue, but it only proves a man is a damn fool.)

Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What

You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.

I had this place in back, even had my own garden, planted all kinds of tulips, which grew, beautifully and amazingly. I had the green hand. I had the green money. what system I had devised I can no longer remember, but it was working and I wasn't and that's a pleasant enough way to live.

The big moment came. I sat the typewriter down on the desk and I put a piece of paper in there and I hit the keys. The typewriter still worked. And there was plenty of room for an ashtray, the radio and the bottle. Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

But you must have imperfect hours to get perfect hours. You must kill ten hours to make two hours live. What you must be careful of is not to kill ALL the hours, ALL the years.

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

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

Existem bilhões de pessoas no mundo que não atingem o sucesso pela criação. Quer me dizer que elas estão mortas? – Sim. – E você tem uma alma? Você é um dos poucos que tem uma alma? – Diria que sim.

things begin to lose their natural value as they near human endeavor. nothing against Beethoven: he did fine for what he was but I wouldn't want him on my rug with one leg over his head while he was licking his balls.

Janeway Smithson had been on the job for twenty-five years and was dumb enough to be proud of it. He

Colón's signal accomplishment was, in the phrase of historian Alfred W. Crosby, to reknit the seams of Pangaea.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things

sitting in front of the Golden Gate made me think that if we, meaning our culture, could make this bridge-sculpture right now, bad off and broke as we were, then surely we could do almost anything, and we could do it gracefully, powerfully, beautifully, and functionally.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way—

It's amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment

Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: "crispies"—because they have burned out. On