#achievement

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#air #always #breath #cast #cent

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ↗

— Ovid

#arduous #attempt #difficult #i #task

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#along #better #biggest #came #changed

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#cities #environment #everyone #forward #getting

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement. ↗

— Robert Plant

#bands #haven #i #know #night

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#backward #companies #economic #economic growth #everything

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless