Quotes About Achievement

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm just a trophy.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

You need the life of a champion. It's always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It's the conquering of the useless.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.