Quotes About Achievement

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. —Thomas Edison

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong

Anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Easy is nice, but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know.

Byrd at the South Pole

An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

Whoop! 6K words, 21 pages, and 8 miles on the treadmill -- DONE! #ProductiveDay #LetThereBeIceCream

That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

bring in a magnificent income that would assure her

the trip itself may have so far gone smoothly,

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Aquí, ya ves, hay que correr todo lo posible para quedarte en el mismo sitio. Si quieres ir a algún sitio, debes correr al menos dos veces más rápido. Lewis Carroll, Alicia a través del espejo (monólogo de la reina roja)

desde el objetivo final, recorría hacia atrás con el pensamiento una compleja red de medios (y obstáculos) para lograrlo».

Un plan se convirtió en una serie de propuestas detalladas sobre cómo alcanzar un objetivo.

Survival must be the highest objective; otherwise nothing could be achieved.

von Moltke's definition of victory: "the highest goal attainable with available means.

I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.