2,199 Quotes About Achievement

It's wonderful really. We wanted to reach 40 points after 38 games, to get it after 27 is a tremendous achievement but we won't be resting on our laurels.

It's a big disappointment. It's bittersweet. I got to race in the Olympics and that's an incredible achievement for the greatest country in the world. But in the same sense, I don't think I was representing my abilities or my country's abilities to the best.

When he's shooting well, I encourage him. We're trying to measure personal achievement with team goals.

We've done the double over them now, and that's no mean achievement.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.