Quotes About Achievement

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

but Yakima beat him to it.

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

For success everything must go right, but by contrast, failure can be attributed to any number of external causes

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities. What we do shapes who we become and what we're capable of doing. The more we do, the more we can do.

When Michelangelo finally completed painting over 400 life size figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is reported to have written, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

When Michelangelo finally completed painting over 400 life size figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is reported to have written, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." What appeared to his admirers to have flowed from sheer genius had required four torturous years of work and dedication.20

I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

Now he was sitting in the bridge, about to embark on the voyage that would put him on the same list as Columbus

I think our father Demitri is smiling upon this launch.

You didn't get to his level in Connexion Security without being competent.

For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. "I win," he said softly, then shouted it. "I fucking win! And the universe knows it.

Frank had been faintly dubious about coming to Lalonde. But now he had to admit it was the greatest decision he'd ever made. A man could sit back every evening and see what he'd achieved.

Perfection is what we strive for, it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist. (The Evolutionary Void)

To get to his level in under a hundred fifty years illustrated a phenomenal achievement.

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.