Quotes About Achievement

I have dreams and aspirations of taking a stroll down the ramp at a pay-per-view setting. Everybody has those dreams as a kid, and that'd be really cool.

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

I'm one of the few artists who started from the ground up for real. Not taking no records to the radio station begging no DJ to play it. When DJs started playing my records they called me for them. I ain't pull up and ask nobody for nothing, I ain't pay nobody nothing.

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

I can control my effort, how hard I work and taking advantage of the opportunities.

I think I've always been very good at taking advantage of the opportunities that have been given to me, because I didn't have many. Once I got one, I grabbed it with two hands.

Taking chances is my job; some will connect and some won't, and certain films find their audiences in different ways. I think 'Spotlight' probably is a better movie because of 'The Cobbler.' You learn with every movie you make: you learn from your mistakes, and you learn from your achievements, and I really do have that approach to filmmaking.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.

All the money I have, I made with my talent.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.