Long-Term Achievement Quotes

There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.

I've a track record of successful comedy films spread over more than a decade.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.

Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.

Sportive fortunes get built day after day, week after week through a healthy lifestyle.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it!

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something and it's there forever.

If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?

My career proves that you can be on top for a long period of time by doing things that come naturally.

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.