Quotes About Achievement

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!

The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

I really don't care about stats. I don't care about any of that stuff. I just care about performing each and every weekend and helping my team win ball games.

When I started at the Wall Street Journal after college in 1990, there were lots of smart women around me all the time. They were writing for the paper, serving as managing editor, winning Pulitzers and anchoring the weekend show I worked on. It was so inspiring to me.

The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.

Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

I only care about winning and putting points on the board.

Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.

I have to say it was a very good start, a very good first season. I enjoyed it a lot, scored good points and gained a lot of experience.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

I feel like I'm dreaming. 10,000 points in the NBA. It's crazy.

It's always good to score a goal, but for me, the most important thing is the three points.

For us, it's about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

I wasn't going to McDonald's every week, but a nice pizza after three points isn't a bad way to have it.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.