Quotes About Achievement

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Part of my success was rooted in psychology.

Sports psychology suggests - and we as players have been taught - that negative self-talk can diminish our chances for success and that the opposite is also true. Given the talent, we can also think and speak our way to success.

Every single insane psychotic thing that I've ever believed that seems unfeasible to other people, I've made it happen.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

I have had a career in public service.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.