Quotes About Achievement

I just looked in to stuff to do to keep me occupied. Alright, I'm gonna start dieting. I'm gonna start working out more. So then I started to lose weight, and then I started to see some results, and I started to drop some weight.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.

It occurred to me that my family had achieved the American Dream, from being poor to starting a business to giving me and my brother an amazing education. It's one reason I joined the Air Force, because I believed I can never give back to America what America has given to my family and me.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.

My big break occurred when I was six years old and met Scott Moir.

When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

Having no legs doesn't mean you can't drive fast and I wasn't going to be happy scoring the odd point. I thought it was possible to win and went for it.

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

I've had such an odd career.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

A puncher's chance means that anyone has the potential to succeed, whatever the odds or circumstances, if he or she works for it.