Significant Accomplishment Quotes

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

I don't want easy success. It's boring.

I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

It is a high for me. It is my biggest and most satisfying deal.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

I'll never be able to quantify how important 'Venus' was for me or my career. I ticked a huge box.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.