Quotes About Achievement

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.

Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.

The reason boys desire so desperately to kiss girls is because, with each kiss, the activity makes the boy's wanger grow larger. The more girls a boy can kiss, the larger a wanger he'll eventually possess, and the boys boasting the largest are awarded the best-paying, highest-status jobs. Really, it's all very simple.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. The agent's yelling that no matter how great you look, your body is just something you wear to accept your Academy Award. Your hand is just so you can hold your Nobel Prize. Your lips are only there for you to air-kiss a talk show host.

Un minuto era suficiente, dijo Tyler; hay que trabajar duro para lograrlo, pero por un minuto de perfección valía la pena el esfuerzo. Lo máximo que podías esperar de la perfección era un instante.

My feet walked me down the aisle of the Greyhound bus, all the way to the back. My butt sat me in a seat. My butt's accomplished a lot since then. My butt's a movie star.

I've known fantastic writers who never finished a project. And writers who launched incredible ideas, then never fully executed them.

Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom," Tyler says, you'll never really succeed.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea... That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed, and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives. That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing.

Why I do this is to put adventure back into people's lives. Why I do this is to create heroes. Put people to the test.