Quotes About Achievement

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Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine, Grimm said.

I guess you don't get to be commander of the Wardens by collecting bottle caps, either.

if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back.  

This can only be accomplished by people who live, breathe, eat and sleep what they are doing.... [I am] associated with a large group of knowledgeable, dedicated [people] who eat, breathe, and sleep the world of aeronautics.... Man's objective should be opportunity for greater accomplishment and greater service. The greatest pleasure life has to offer is the satisfaction that flows from... participating in a difficult and constructive undertaking.50

As melhores pessoas anseiam pela meritocracia, enquanto as pessoas medíocres tem medo dela.

Good is the enemy of great... We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good-and that is their main problem.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

You need the combination of know-how and motivation.

It was victory – handsomely achieved – that sold. Nothing else would do. And Ferguson, Cantona, Giggs and the new United provided it.

Crerand recalls, it gave them an injection of confidence. 'After winning the Cup, we realised that we could then win anything,' he says. 'It was the start of our good run in the 1960s, much like Alex Ferguson's success in 1990 was the start of what has become the greatest era in United's history.

Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The Mets lose an awful lot? Listen, mister. Think a little bit. When was the last time you won anything out of life?

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.

supported the high ceilings.

COME ONE, COME ALL! TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST GIRLS' HERAEAN OLYMPIC GAMES, YOU'RE INVITED TO A PARTY. IT STARTS AT SUNDOWN IN THE CUPOLA. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

Together we will ensure that for as long as we are alive to achieve it, the King's School shall send its singing boys to the cathedral as it has done these four hundred years.

A przecie? prawdziwe czarowanie nie jest zgo?a dramatyczne, to po prostu skupienie my?li na upragnionym celu.