Quotes About Achievement

Hollywood, without knowing it, has its most magnificent year ever. Never again will it come close to matching this year's product. Gone With the Wind takes the Oscar. But it has stiff competition from Goodbye Mr. Chips, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, and Juarez.

He has worked hard to disappear into achievement. Twice he has won the university's teaching award, and only last month he was nominated for the APA's Beauchamp Prize for research that empirically advances a materialistic understanding of the human mind. He has performed himself in public so long he's been fooled by his own vita.

Then everyone began to wonder why he didn't shut the pile off," Anderson continues. 1701 "But Fermi was completely calm. He waited another minute, then another, and then when it seemed that the anxiety was too much to bear, he ordered 'ZIP in!' " It was 3: 53 P.M. Fermi had run the pile for 4.5 minutes at one-half watt and brought to fruition all the years of discovery and experiment. Men had controlled the release of energy from the atomic nucleus.

trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

Silliman had struck oil—oil suitable for lighting.

Of Thursday, August 20, 1942, Seaborg writes: Perhaps today was the most exciting and thrilling day I have experienced since coming to the Met Lab. Our microchemists isolated pure element 94 for the first time!

Bohr was different in another regard as well; he was easily the most talented of all Rutherford's many students—and Rutherford trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

A page a day is a book a year. Listen to that again: a page a day is a book a year.

Fermi allowed himself a grin. He would tell the technical council the next day that the pile achieved a k of 1.0006.1700 Its neutron intensity was then doubling every two minutes. Left uncontrolled for an hour and a half, that rate of increase would have carried it to a million kilowatts.

Then, just in time, as in all good melodramas, Dammam No. 7 came through: on 4 March 1938, while the Socal board was still deliberating, No. 7, at a depth of 4,725 feet, started flowing at 1,585 barrels a day. Three days later, the flow was up to more than twice that volume, to 3,690 barrels, and to 3,810 barrels by the end of the month.

The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Thus with one sentence I can summarize my academic career. It will be harder to summarize what sort of life connects the boy to the man.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the great American essayist, said "nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Most

As Rilke put it, "When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

True, Jedediah Halsey's Sans Souci hadn't been so much foolish as "visionary," which, as everyone knew, was what you called a foolish idea that worked anyway.

I earned good money,' he said. 'I was driving in good teams, I was winning races, I had pole positions … basically, not a lot to prove. So what is the point to take still the risk? That was my question to myself last week. But the other side is, what is the rest of your life?

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

Goals don't separate high performers; systems do.

The puzzle of performance becomes much simpler when the bar is visible each day.