Quotes About Achievement

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

I'm appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone?

I saw 'Rolling Stone' magazine once, and they were talking about the top 50 songs, and there wasn't one Sly song; how does that happen? But, Sly isn't the type to brown nose for props. He's always known what he had, what he was capable of; I'm just proud that he took the time and effort to put it to music.

People would be like, 'Oh, 'Saturday Night Live' is such a stepping stone!' And I remember being like, 'A stepping stone?! This is my everything! I could just stop right here! This is the pinnacle!'

I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP.

'Power' has definitely been an immense stepping stone for me. It's opened up doors that I could only have dreamed of.

My biggest moment was me beating Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the championship.

If you look at the Rock's crossover, Stone Cold, my dad too, in his era, I want to do that. I want to mean that much to the industry. That's just a matter of working harder every single day.

It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'

The dream of those who come to Genoa is that they use it as a stepping stone towards a big club.

I feel that Miss India is a stepping stone for anything you want to do, not just Bollywood.

I've worked with Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Olive Stone and David Gordon Green, and Damien Chazelle on 'First Man.' When you have someone at the helm like that, they're gonna make something great.

Every time you step in there with a guy who is not ranked where you're at, it's always a big stepping stone for them - if they're able to get the job done.

The family has been the corner stone of my success in movies.

I think a football career should be used as a stepping stone to something better - not as an end in Itself.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

People want to dream up this big, giant goal without putting the stepping stones along the way, and for me, that's what gets you to that giant goal.

At 18, I jumped to the Premier League from League Two which looks good on paper but it's about the journey and the stepping stones.

We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.