Quotes About Achievement

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

I'm working on another Lyra book right now – it's called The Book of Dust. "It's going very well and it will be finished when I write the words 'The End'.

El trabajo sin alegría es ruin; el trabajo sin dolor es ruin; el dolor sin trabajo es ruin; la alegría sin trabajo es ruin. John Ruskin

Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?

It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.

Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?

I'll get them there, she kept saying to herself. I come here to get 'em and I'll bloody get 'em.

And Lord Asriel has a way special to himself of bringing about what he wants, he just has to call for something and—

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else, when the result is to wind up so far behind?

But to wish oneself into another's glory, as boy or as man, is an impossibility, untenable on psychological grounds if you are not a writer, and on aesthetic grounds if you are.

you will make mistakes on a scale you can't even dream of now—because there is no other way to reach the end.

try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.

Ser imune ao tédio... É a chave da vida moderna. Se você não se deixar vencer pelo tédio, não existe nada, literalmente, que você não possa conquistar.

Then, if you have good luck and people seem to like what you do, and you actually get to get paid for it, and get to see your stuff professionally typeset and bound and blurbed and reviewed and even (once) being read on the AM subway by a pretty girl you don't even know, it seems to make it even more fun. For a while.

S'il n'y avait pas de combat parce que le commandant local avait réussi à pacifier sa région, tant pis pour lui – pas de médaille. Il

Number one is talk about the unique achievement, status or other specialties. Number two is personalize the greatness in your offer. Number three is show the reader how easy it is to achieve this.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

Nothing would ever have been achieved, he thought, if men had allowed themselves to be diverted by the scale of the problems faced.

Two remarkable towers. And beyond that, she became something

Success, no matter how you define it, is attainable only by persuading another person-a boss, a client, a colleague, a subordinate, a friend or loved one-to give you what you want.

you do the work, it will eventually turn into money!

Mumbett also had another family of her own. Her great-grandson was W. E. B. Du Bois. In his writings, he remembered her with pride, as an inspiration for his stellar career in American and world history.

The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence from success.