Quotes About Achievement

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.'

The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

Listen, winning the Super Bowl, winning the Super Bowl MVP doesn't make me as valuable as I am.

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

It has been a dream to play for India and above that when you are rewarded for being the most valuable player, you feel even more blessed.

I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments.

LeBron had no obligation to me. I was not entitled to anything. I wanted to be valuable.

Competition is everywhere here. I think it's a valuable thing. I think it's a good thing.

The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.