Quotes About Achievement

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.

You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.

Obviously I've had my problems in the past, but these are the moments you live for, when you are in the papers for the good reasons.

I became famous when I scored that goal for Mogi Mirim direct from the kick-off against Noroeste. It was 18 April 1993, if I'm not mistaken. After that, my name was in all the papers.

My idea is to create something that is at par with everything that is around the world or Hollywood.

Everybody at the Olympics are almost at level par.

I'm very well-recognized in Japan, on a par with a rock star.

I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles.

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

Working on 'Death In Paradise' is very challenging, but it enables me to go further in my acting.

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only about a 100, out of which I'd say at least 30-35 films I am even proud of.

I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful, which is different parameters, then you're also happy.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.