Quotes About Achievement

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.

I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

I'm not here to propel myself into the limelight. I'm here to win a football game. If I am propelled into the limelight, I want it to be because of what I do on the football field, not because of some grand marketing strategy.

Every year, I laid out a strategy of what I was going to do, and I was very successful. In 2003, I wanted to take the world by storm, and I did that indoors. In 2004, I wanted to run fast; I did that. In 2005, I wanted to be dominant, and I did that as well.

I was in 'The Outsiders,' which was a good launching pad for me, but 'The Karate Kid' sent me into a different stratosphere.

I look at a streak as I don't lose - literally.

I'm proud of what I've done. I look at it and I try to stay humble and do what I've got to do, but I think people forget, I'm the first guy to beat the win streak at Nova Uniao with Johnny Eduardo. He had an 11-fight win streak and I beat him, and people say, 'That's nothing.'

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.

When you're on a win streak, your confidence is high, and it means everything in your camp has been working and it means you're on the right track.

There's no man on the planet that has a five-fight win streak that isn't confident.

Seeing the fight game and seeing the way things have worked out, a guy could be on a seven-fight, monstrous win streak and not get a title shot. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.