I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and let nature take its course. A few will be impressed by your creation, others will be disgusted. Plus, no one will enjoy your success and achievement in producing it as much as you did. - H O Charles For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. - Theodore Roosevelt

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. - Helen Hayes

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. - Jasper Fforde You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. - Steve Prefontaine I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did. - Andrew Wiles

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. - Candace Bushnell It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement. - Neal Stephenson

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement. - Nader Almasri Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. - Florence Scovel Shinn

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. - Margaret Spellings I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. - Margaret Spellings We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. - Margaret Spellings

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. - Maggie Gallagher Fred: You know, George, I've always felt our futures lay outside the world of academic achievement. George: Fred, I've been thinking exactly the same thing. - J K Rowling As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. - Brad Sherman After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. - Vernon L Smith With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test sc...