Quotes About Achievement

Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

When I say I gave it my all in Sydney, I really did.

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those games really made me realize how much work I had to do and inspired me to work harder for the Sydney Olympics.

Winning that gold medal in Sydney really did change my life.

For me I tried to not keep a low profile but I was training in a different country as I prepared for Sydney because I had such a realistic gold medal shot. I just wanted to stay focused and not get caught up in all of the hullabaloo and all of press prior to it.

I'd want to play the Sydney Opera House.

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

My thing I always go back to is that sense of finishing 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Night,' and that castle flipping over, and just going, 'Oh my God, that was amazing! I have so much more to play!' It was astounding. I think I've always been chasing that. I think my entire career, I have been like, 'I want that kind of epiphany.'

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.