Quotes About Achievement

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.

After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

When I came to California, the first four parts I did were Stanford students. I think I should get an honorary degree from them.

I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.

I went to Stanford.

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way through Stanford's 'pioneer' class - the first freshmen at Stanford. He started his mining career in hard labor.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.

The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.

I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and a couple gold medals and played on some really good teams... I'm not going to look back and say I wish I could have done this or that.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That's something I've dreamed of my whole life. I think that's why every hockey player at this level plays.

I've never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I've never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.