Quotes About Achievement

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

I have a biology degree, okay?

As long as I get a medal, I'm okay with sharing it.

When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.