Quotes About Achievement

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.