achievement Quotes

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit \'MIA.\' That\'s the best part of it.

Stalin\'s historical achievement was that he simplified the picture of the world to the utmost and made it accessible to regional committee secretaries.

A successful career is not just a ladder of achievement, but the ability to maneuver and move forward, no matter what.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

If you raise a cool adult, that\'s an achievement.

The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion - and the opinion of many, including Arne Duncan, our secretary of education - to the fact that the families of the poor who are not very educated are not talking to their children, interacting with their children, insisting they do their homework and so on.

To win against Roger was a big achievement for me.

We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that\'s not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

Our mental adventures are directed by the compass of imagination, navigating the seas of reality towards the islands of achievement.

Punishing achievement isn\'t gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that\'s not good. All that is is punitive. Why don\'t you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?

I\'ve learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. That if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. I mean, really wanting it. Not a preference, and not, \"Gee, I hope this.\" I mean really wanting it. It is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

The Democrats are about punishing achievement and punishing success and saying it\'s unjustified, it\'s unfair, and it may involve cheating and scandal. They stigmatize success because their voters are people who cannot achieve those things. The Democrats have made sure they don\'t even want to try.

The fact that we haven\'t faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that\'s easy to forget - it\'s the dog that doesn\'t bark.

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I\'m still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

Your habits are a direct reflection of your achievement.

Your perspective, not your surroundings, determines your achievement.

Don't be scared of failing. Failure is only a stopover on the way to achievement.

High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life.

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

The quality of the article should be its greatest achievement.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.