Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others. ”

Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. ”

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. ”

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society, relationships, all of that stuff. There wasn't ever really, apart from Dickens, a literary evocation of working class life. ”

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. ”

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry. ”

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win. ”

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that. ”

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names. ”

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose. ”