Life is for living not achieving.
You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving...
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.