Quotes About Milestones

Long distance races ceased to be daunting, single entities – 12K, Half Marathon, Marathon. As if solving a riddle, I deciphered their true nature: incremental miles over time.

The goal of this book is do for you what Greg did for me: reframe 26.2 miles as accessible and inspire your first marathon journey, one mile at a time.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning to talk. Reaching out for you for the first hug, telling you they love you.

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.

We started Good Neighbor in like 2006? Right around the time that Kyle graduated college. And I was doing freelance editing.

The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.

Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I've come and what's changed.

I take my role of being an aunt seriously and have attended every important event/milestone in all my nieces' and nephews' lives.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

There were no more hurdles. Now all they had to do was walk, and see how far they could get.

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

toddlers learn more between 12 months and three years old than during any other stage throughout their whole life?

way to earning a place in history. In the intervening months, he passed a series of tests

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.

Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.

highlights of Elena's career

I'm often asked what it takes to be 'Series A ready' in terms of metrics, progress, and traction. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer.

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.