Quotes About Achievement

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Do not die without realizing yourself

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide.

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause Jumping in the Puddles of Life

You learn to run by running.

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

The best way to get praise is to die.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.