Quotes About Achievement

La convergencia de intereses durante toda la vida de dos personas que no comparten los genes es tal vez la hazaña más sobresaliente de la historia evolutiva humana.

Always be closing.

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?" Carl

One day reach idealization; after all, it's the journey, not the destination.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Walking twenty-five miles, or even running up the stairs and back, suddenly seemed pointless, since without the steps being counted and registered, what use were they?

I wanted to be perfect," he said over dinner. "I…need to be perfect." It's such a burden to place on yourself. Say you are perfect—who's going to recognize it? Few things are like the Olympics, where judges hold up score cards. How does one paint perfectly? Or lawyer perfectly? The key is to fill the space between your skill level and perfection with charm. That said, you can't do it consciously. Charm can't be constructed that way.

The crummy part of swimming is that while you're doing it you can't really see much: the bottom of the pool, certainly, a smudged and fleeting bit of the outside world as you turn your head to breathe. But you can't pick things out – a man's face, for example, watching from the sidelines when, for the first time in your life, you pull ahead and win.

We sweat for our pretensions. It

February 16, 1988 Reasons to live: 1. Christmas 2. The family beach trip 3. Writing a published book 4. Seeing my name in a magazine 5. Watching C. grow bald 6. Ronnie Ruedrich 7. Seeing Amy on TV 8. Other people's books 9. Outliving my enemies 10. Being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.

what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

Even in a jar, that kid has outearned me.

back of the team jerseys to serve as a constant reminder of the narrow margin between winning and losing, failure and success, between being good and becoming great.

To Roxy Music and EG's palpable relief, on 2 May 1972 the band were finally signed on as Island Records recording artists.

In place of bottom-of-the-bill humiliation and hand-to-mouth motel living, Roxy Music were now a major draw – and they lived up to it, insisting on staying only in plush hotels and grazing at restaurants with Michelin stars to spare.

A veces la grandeza la lleva el perdedor y la ignominia es de quien primero llegó.

sonríe a pesar del dolor en el tobillo izquierdo. En algún lugar leyó que los ganadores del maratón se vuelven héroes por tantas horas dedicadas al entrenamiento; el día de la carrera, en cambio, los héroes comienzan a llegar después de las cuatro horas. El día de hoy, se dice Matus, seré un héroe.

Como no tengo sueños no me doy de bruces con la realidad. Que funcione un semáforo ya me parece el colmo de los logros humanos

No existe nada más que el éxito, el resto es invisibilidad.

This, she realized suddenly, was probably the best squadron command she would ever have—unless

They're human beings, and the two things humans make are tools…and mistakes. But sometimes we get stuff right, too, and there are some really good models out there

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons