Quotes About Achievement

You are poor when you have nothing to show for." "Thus, making you look weak in comparison.

Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

I respect Everest very much.

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. This requires challenging homeostasis—getting out of your comfort zone—and forcing your brain or your body to adapt.

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before.

Generally speaking, meaningful positive feedback is one of the crucial factors in maintaining motivation. It can be internal feedback, such as the satisfaction of seeing yourself improve at something, or external feedback provided by others, but it makes a huge difference in whether a person will be able to maintain the consistent effort necessary to improve through purposeful practice.

The key thing is to take that general goal—get better—and turn it into something specific that you can work on with a realistic expectation of improvement.

If we can show students that they have the power to develop a skill of their choice and that, while it is not easy, it has many rewards that will make it worthwhile, we make it much more likely that they will use deliberate practice to develop various skills over their lifetimes.

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it. We can create our own potential. And this is true whether our goal is to become a concert pianist or just play the piano well enough to amuse ourselves, to join the PGA golf tour or just bring our handicaps down a few strokes.

We can shape our own potential. Art

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

L'obstacle nous fait grands.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I'll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I'll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don't lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.

You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.

Quel che rende speciale qualcosa non è quel che si vince, ma quel che senti di poter perdere.

Being Number Two Sucks.

I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.

Losing to Pete has caused me enormous pain, but in the long run it's also made me more resilient. If I'd beaten Pete more often, or if he'd come along in a different generation, I'd have a better record, and I might go down as a better player, but I'd be less.