Quotes About Achievement

In emphasizing achievements (which are tangible) over the cultivation of a love of learning (which is intangible), schools simultaneously reinforce the rat-race mentality and stifle children's emotional development.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being very good

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Dame Catriona. Det fikk henne til å virke veldig viktig, men hun følte seg bare forvirret. For en utrolig ære å bli tildelt for en som hadde startet livet bakerst i en malt varietevogn.

Joy, joy forever, my task is done. The gates are passed, and heaven is won.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

You're competent enough on the trail." Don't slay me with admiration.

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Guru-ji, I am the winner of the Super Sleuth World Federation of Detectives award for 1999. Also, I was on the cover of India Today magazine. It's a distinction no other

every second of the day offers a beautiful opportunity to achieve success. Therefore, you have 86,400 chances to change your life every day.

The real achievement of the script and the people making it is that they throw the kitchen sink at us... and it all works. Daleks, Anne Robinson, the end of a complicated storyline, tears, jokes, action, more Daleks, romance, pathos, satire, an outrageous cheat and more Daleks than we have ever seen even in drawings we did as eight year olds. And then David Tennant shows up, and we realise we ain't seen nothing yet.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

And when their goal was obtained, they had only two choices before them: gaining even more power, world without end, or dying of frustration when they consciously, or unconsciously, realized that this was not what they had wanted at all, that it gave them no delight, and the world they had attained was empty of everything. They had narrowed their existence; like a projectile, they were trained on only one target." He walked on, and Cornelia followed

said one, "you are a much better wrestler." "So I am," said Lucanus, leaning

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.