Quotes About Breakthrough

I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

I wanted to do more and not be stereotyped. The roles coming my way were getting repetitive.

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

Dan Rather had to move over a few inches to make room for me. It was my dream job. And my dream came true.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar.

He said that God has closed up the realm of the miraculous to me, not as punishment, but to draw me into the desperation needed to maintain it as a lifestyle once I received my breakthrough.

I'm up late again - It's almost 6 am. I'm trying to imagine some better answers, to break the spell and free them from the stone.

I made four pictures before 'The Graduate,' and nothing ever happened. And after that - wow!

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'

Before that film, I was nobody. Each job I got, I was so excited. Each paycheck I got, I thought, 'Wow, I'm getting paid to act.' But 'The Matrix' gave me so many opportunities. Everything I've done since then has been because of that experience. It gave me so much.

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

We broke through.

It only takes that one play, that one big pass, for a touchdown.

My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.

One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.

For years, I didn't feel like I belonged in the second week of Grand Slam tournaments. I just wasn't good enough. But when the 2016 U.S. Open rolled around, I knew, for whatever reason, I was going to make a splash.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.