Quotes About Achievement

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Hits and flops are overrated.

I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!

I think I'm overrated as a director!

I feel like, at times, I've been seen as the dirty stepchild of Australian comedy. I think there's a few people out there that are pissed off that I made it big overseas.

It's my one aim, my dream to win a series overseas.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

If I'm going to get overshadowed in a film, it's because of something that I haven't done, not because of what the other heroine has done or because I've focused on the amount of scenes she had in the film.

If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.

Of course, I want to try and overtake the record of goals scored in European cups with the Rossoneri shirt.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

I am overwhelmed for whatever I have achieved so far. I give the credit to my mother and everyone who has helped me.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

I am overwhelmed and I am glad I can make my parents proud by becoming a Canadian citizen. It has been a long journey becoming a Canadian citizen.

I've worked my entire life to be this busy. I've worked my entire career to have this many things to do and this many emails to answer. Even when it's overwhelming, it's still a blessing.

The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would - in the face of overwhelming obstacles!

Does the overall effort have both a schedule and a goal, where the schedule and the goal are markedly different? If the schedule is the goal, there is no risk management at work. The earliest date by which the work could conceivably be done makes an excellent goal but an awful schedule.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.