Quotes About Achievement

As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.

Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

There's so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times.

It will be hard for us and it will be an achievement just to get out of the group stages and through to the quarterfinals, but I am personally dreaming of reaching the final!

We have good stages in our career and stages where you could do better.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

I'm always looking for bigger audiences and bigger stages. Really, however I can reach my fans is what will make me happy - well, I'll actually probably never be happy.

If somebody had told me as a kid that I would win 30 stages of the Tour de France I probably wouldn't have imagined it. I probably imagined I could do it - I don't lack confidence - but at the end of the day one Tour de France stage win can make a rider's career.

I put my head on my pillow now, knowing that in the later stages in my career, from 2010 on, I did everything I possibly could do to be as good as I could possibly be, I know it sounds really cheesy but it was actually true.

All the players want to play on the big stages - and I am no exception.

I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.