Quotes About Achievement

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!