Quotes About Achievement

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

I want to win with Monaco. I want to show that I'm 100 percent.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

I'm trying to capitalize on taking high percentage shots and hopefully making them at a high clip.

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

The perception about me has changed to a certain extent after the success of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.'

Winning changes the perception of what you do, and whether it's a positive or a negative, even though it's the exact same thing.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

What drives me is trying to be perfect.

Everything else is irrelevant after the bliss of giving a perfect shot.