Quotes about Achievement

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

God helps him who strives hard.

When all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.