I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.
Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
