Quotes About Achievement

Too many realizers, not enough realizing.

Doing nothing is very hard to do–you never know when you're finished.

How much we get done and how well we can do it are the benchmarks of a good day or professional success. The more efficiently we produce, the better we feel. The downside, however, is that continued good feelings depend on keeping up the momentum of doing more. This doesn't come without a cost.

You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great.

A woman in Buffalo set a new world record for eating 183 buffalo wings. I don't think there will be a second date.

Got any rivers they say are uncrossable, Got any mountains they say "can't tunnel through"? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing the things they say you can't do. song of the Panama Canal builders

It costs to have a dream, but it costs too much to remember only the price.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.

Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.

Nothing made you feel more like a fucking sorcerer than aviating under your own power. Yippee ki-yay, motherfuckers.

Onward and upward.

He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.

She was used to doing a lot with a little. Now that she had a lot, she was going to work wonders with it. And she did.

Glory has its price," Penny said. "Did you not know that, before you sought it?

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

You had to face yourself and deal with your shit, that's how you got somewhere.

If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods and not of men. Ten lives would not suffice Aristotle to assimilate all the knowledge that has been accumulated on earth since his death, and Alexander would perhaps be able to realize his dream and conquer the world.

Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve anything. Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself - the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the job.

Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.