Quotes About Achievement

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

I had this dream like years ago. I had this dream - I wanted to be in an all-black string band.

I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.'

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

'Stars Earn Stripes' was one of the best experiences of my life.

A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

We strive for greatness.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

You want to strive to be the best you can be, and hopefully one of the best, if you can ever make it that far.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.