Quotes About Achievement

I'd dreamt of playing professionally since I was 15, that's the route I took.

I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.

As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don't think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

I've now been encouraged by many people to apply and so I did apply and I have now been made, full professor. I'm happy about that.

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

I can honestly say that, growing up, it never crossed my mind that I could ever make anything. I could write articles about things, which is why I wanted to be a professor. I loved watching movies and writing about them and teaching them, but it never crossed my mind that I could make something.

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in life as a housekeeper at 15 years old, totally on her own, and she retired as a college professor. But there were some hard times. It's not easy for a woman who's only trying to do the best for her kid but who could never be home.

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

I did a four-year degree in five years. I have awesome support from my team and my professors. Everyone's super on board and that makes my life a bit easier.

I had a different agent after 'Hook,' and they were, like, 'We don't know where to go with you. It's like you've already gone to the top of what's out there for a young Asian actor.' No one had done anything higher profile than that. And I'm, like, 'OK, but I'm only 15.'