Quotes About Achievement

She had succeeded where the other technician had failed. "It was an incredible moment, and it made me think I could do science.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

De hecho, fue precisamente por descubrir la ley del efecto fotoeléctrico por lo que se concedería a Einstein su único premio Nobel.

In fact, it was specifically for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect that Einstein would win his only Nobel Prize.

A decade after that, in 1915, he wrested from nature his crowning glory, one of the most beautiful theories in all of science, the general theory of relativity.

Franklin's scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin's experiments, he wrote in 1941, "afforded a basis for the explanation for all the known phenomena of electricity."16 Franklin

Al igual que un día bien aprovechado trae un sueño feliz —había escrito Leonardo treinta años antes—, una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»[27] Esta le llegó el 2 de mayo de 1519, al poco de cumplir sesenta y siete años.

El éxito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico.

people are more likely to admire your work if you're able to keep them from feeling jealous of you.6

Walter Isaacson

There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.

Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

I do wish, however, that Ms. Olson would give me some credit for the progress I've already made. In 1944, I filed my first 1040, reporting my income as a thirteen-year-old newspaper carrier. The return covered three pages. After I claimed the appropriate business deductions, such as $35 for a bicycle, my tax bill was $7. I sent my check to the Treasury and it — without comment — promptly cashed it. We lived in peace.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun if making money and watching it grow.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally—and certainly not in reinsurance—as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon.