Quotes About Achievement

Which is why you need to graduate." "But I dropped out." She snorted. "then drop back in!" "I-what? How?

Great opportunities disguise themselves as small tasks.

Recuerda cuánto has progresado, no únicamente cuánto te falta.

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

That's success: being happy with your life.

Stretch and contradictory goals are important

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

She believed she could so she did.

Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

It's got to be done.

A Mike no le importaba perder con tal de demostrar que su vino era lo bastante bueno para ser reconocido, y Pratt , por su parte, parecía encontrar un placer solemne y contenido en desplegar sus conocimientos.

Goals and plans are fine, and they can often be effective motivators, but success promises something it can't deliver. As soon as you reach your goal, success creates a new one, which creates new anxieties and stresses.

They aren't interesting. What you haven't done, where you didn't go to school, what you haven't accomplished, who you don't know and what you are scared of simply aren't interesting.

To do anything new—to do the 1—requires tremendous mental fortitude to not think about 2 or 3 yet. That time will come. And it is not now. Now is the time for 1. You start with 1. And you work on that. Just 1. And when 1 is done, you move to 2.

Success says, What more can I get? Craft says, Can you believe I get to do this?

What did you get, Mr Edwards?' 'Three As.' 'And what were you expecting?' Mr Edwards looks right into the camera and, completely deadpan, says, 'Three As.' For Edwards, the perfectionist, this still wasn't good enough. He wanted no, needed - to be the best and a simple grade wasn't enough to confirm this, even to himself.

When I got my A-Levels, I got straight As, but I thought they weren't as good as other people's straight As,' said Edwards. 'They would look at me as if their As were better. We didn't get percentage marks, so three As weren't enough. I wanted to know I'd got, like, ninety-flve per cent. Three As is meaningless unless you're arrogant enough to think you're as good as them. Which I'm not. I need to see it written down to know.

Darren realized, not an act of violence he had committed. But rather a consummation; a triumph. Again

The mourning of late summer as it reaches its autumnal tipping point; the pining for faded youth or lost love; the elegy for the fallen in war; otherworldly dimensions glimpsed but not touched; and the yearning for a distant home: British music is uniquely attuned to these moments and sentiments, for it is finally this sense of loss, of achievement slipping away like sand in a glass, that is at the heart of the British experience over the course of the twentieth century.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Caro

Robert A. Caro

You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers