Quotes About Achievement

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'

After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.

I love Keira Knightley. She's had a really versatile career, which I really admire.

I am inspired by the work done by Vidya Balan and Priyanka Chopra. They are both versatile and extremely talented actors.

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'

It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.

There was a lot of other people that had their own song or their name in a verse in high school. I was just like, 'To stamp my high school career, I gotta get my name in a song.'

To have Run-DMC acknowledge you, something like that, you're like, 'Oh, I'm that dude.' To have Jay-Z do a verse, you that dude. To have Jay-Z shout you out in an intro, you're that dude. Like, it doesn't get any greater than that. Nobody can take that from you.

I flipped Gucci Mane's 'Freaky Gurl' for my project and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if he could get on it.' When I got the text that Gucci recorded a verse for the song, I started screaming!

My supplements are similar to my training - I always commit to being a better version of myself.

I am all about self-improvement and becoming the best version of myself, it could be in my career, my finance, or just life in general.

Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

I'm tryna figure out when I'm gonna do my version of the Moonwalk... It's coming, you know? That Dolla $ign moonwalk is comin'.

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

I have a singular focus, I'm a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.

You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.