I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.
When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.
Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.
Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?
Bush and Blair. . . don't understand any language but the language of force. Every time they kill us, we kill them, so the balance of terror is achieved.
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure