When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
You can never achieve a happy life by interrupting other people's happiness.
