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Achievement Quotes

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; and I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.

If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves out of a mindset of limited achievement.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.