Quotes About Achievement

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit television programme and never had a hit record. To my way of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have made no mark of my own creation. This is something to be considered.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

I've been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master's exam at age 21.

I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

Don't worry too much on pathways programs: good players find a way to get through to play for their country.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

My family, especially the ones that came to America, second generation, they're predominantly lawyers, doctors, accountants... they went to college basically, graduated, masters programs and PhD's... all of that good stuff.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.

Any player would like to play in the Champions League and progress, that's what I've based my whole career on.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.