Quotes About Achievement

I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.

Chi si lamenta della fatica, se sa di lavorare per la conquista della propria libertà?

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

We do not compete in our careers with people who lack the requisite intelligence to enter and stay in our field—but rather against the much smaller group of those who have managed to jump the hurdles of schooling, entry exams, and other cognitive challenges to get into the field in the first place.

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

Una de las claves para intensificar nuestra conexión con el estado de flujo consiste en sintonizar lo que hacemos con lo que nos gusta, como sucede en el caso de quienes tienen la inmensa fortuna de disfrutar de su trabajo. Las personas con éxito son, independientemente del entorno considerado, las que han sabido dar con esa combinación.

They believe that anyone can do well in school with the right effort.

There can be a downside to the achievement drive: some people become workaholics, completely focused on their work goals and neglecting to live a full life. You can see this in students who are "grinds," driven to get the highest grades at the sacrifice of everything else in their lives, just as you see it in those successful executives who work 18-hour days all through the week – and in anyone who has perfectionistic standards.

Todo lo que usted debe saber es si seguirá adelante cuando las cosas resulten frustrantes. Yo creo que, dado un determinado nivel de inteligencia, el logro real no depende tanto del talento como de la capacidad de seguir adelante a pesar de los fracasos».

los adultos con TDA presentan una elevada tasa de pensamiento original y mayores logros creativos.

Según Huxley, el eterno ahora alberga todo lo que necesitamos para vivir una vida plena. Pero la capacidad humana de pensar en cosas que no están presentes en el ahora eterno es un requisito para todos los logros de nuestra especie que requieren planificación, imaginación o habilidades logísticas. Y todos esos son logros específicamente humanos.

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. And that doggedness depends on emotional traits—enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks—above all else. The

Trouble creeps in when that pride builds on a desperate grasp for glory rather than on real accomplishment.

What makes the difference between stars and the others is not their academic IQ, but their emotional IQ. They are better able to motivate themselves.

Lo que parece diferenciar a quienes se encuentran en la cúspide de su carrera de aquéllos otros que, teniendo una capacidad similar, no alcanzan esa cota, radica en la práctica ardua y rutinaria seguida a lo largo de años y años. Y esta perseverancia depende fundamentalmente de factores emocionales, como el entusiasmo y la tenacidad frente a todo tipo de contratiempos.

To know that a person is a valedictorian is to know only that he or she is exceedingly good at achievement as measured by grades. It tells you nothing about how they react to the vicissitudes of life."6

Es la combinación entre el talento razonable y la capacidad de perseverar ante el fracaso lo que conduce al éxito.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side effects.

A general "law of least effort" applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

I've got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them.