Quotes about Achievement

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

In order to make history, you have to win the World Cup. It's not good enough just to reach a final.

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.

I want to be in the World Cup.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice - for 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Sindhu Bhairavi,' and 'Rudraveena.'

The biggest challenge of my career has always been to improve my timing, and it will always be so.