Quotes About Achievement

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!

But as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history.

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

Em condições normais, você torce por seu sexo, sua cultura, sua localidade [...] e o que você quer provar é que você é melhor do que a outra pessoa. Seja quem for a pessoa por quem você torce, ela representa você; e quando vence, você vence.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.