Quotes about Achievement

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

First do the necessary, then do the feasible, then you will be able to achieve the impossible.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?