Quotes About Achievement

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village surrounded by Spanish mountains has been achieved.

If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

In popular language, middle-class children can be said to have been "born on third base but believe they hit a triple.

Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success through positive visualization, it turns out that incorporating negative visualization makes us more likely to achieve our goals.

A common, simple way to develop kill criteria is with "states and dates:" "If by (date), I have/haven't (reached a particular state), I'll quit.

the pass-fail nature of goals, their inflexibility, and how pursuing them leads to ignoring other opportunities that might be available.

Exacerbating the pass-fail problem is that once we establish a goal, we rarely revisit it. Goals tend to be set-it-and-forget-it. The finish line doesn't move.

I think that we all share the intuition that the latter case would feel worse, even though that version of you trained for distance running and actually ran 16 miles of a 26.2-mile race, compared with the version of you that never got off the couch. The reason it feels worse is that if you don't try, if you never start the race, there is no failing to reach the finish line because you never set that as a goal for yourself in the first place.

Finish lines are funny things. You either reach them or you don't. You either succeed or you fail. There is no in between. Progress along the way matters very little.

But for so many of us, that fear of falling short makes us not want to start. As Richard Thaler quipped, "If a gold medal in the Olympics is the only grade that passes, you do not want to ever take your first gymnastics class.

Being in the losses is as much a state of mind as anything else. We don't see ourselves as being in the gains, even though we've gone farther than where we started, because we're not measuring ourselves by how far we are past the starting line. We're measuring ourselves by whether we're short of the finish line.

Progress along the way should count for something, but we discard it because goals are pass-fail, all-or-nothing, yes-or-no. There's no partial credit given.

But there is one aphorism that actually encourages people to quit: Quit while you're ahead. Just as so many of those inspirational quotes lauding unlimited persistence are bad advice, this single piece of pro-quitting wisdom, despite surviving for more than four hundred years, is no better.

eight times more people die on Everest on the way down than on the way up.

Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.