Unexpected Achievements Quotes

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

My career has been so different than most guys. I've kind of bounced around and always, one way or another, ended up in the starting lineup. So I would say my career has been very unique.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.