Quotes About Achievement

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

El único éxito de verdad consiste en no morirse, en vivir para siempre, cosa que de momento no parece que esté a nuestro alcance. El éxito es una cosa realmente estupenda, pero la única realidad es el fracaso.

Translation in terms of power struggle: not a simple process for achieving equivalence but a conflict a question of 'bind or be bound', 'chain or be chained', 'capture or be taken captive

Es una ley de la existencia que quien ha luchado por conseguir algo sin lograrlo, lo obtenga en el momento en el cual abandona el deseo.

Fluir en la vida acontece cuando se alcanza la libertad y ésta no es otra cosa más que el logro de la trascendencia con respecto a toda estructura limitante.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Go the extra mile, it's rarely crowded.

Des shrugged. He didn't believe much in equality. Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce everything that we did on earth, we'll go through the whole sequence all over again somewhere else, and people will read my paper as prophecy, and know that having gotten off one planet, they will be able to destroy another with confidence.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give it value, and that our civil war, the devastating manufacture of the bones of our sons, is but a war after a war, a war before a war.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning.

One day I'll make it." Is your goal taking up so much of your attention that you reduce the present moment to a means to an end? Is it taking the joy out of your doing? Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permanent dissatisfaction and nonfulfillment, don't you agree?

Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time - that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation.

Large-scale waiting" is waiting for the next vacation, for a better job, for the children to grow up, for a truly meaningful relationship, for success, to make money, to be important, to become enlightened. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.