"My thesis is that the pain isn't an obstacle to achievement so much as part of the achievement.
He told her that when she did her phenomenal triple jumps, what the audience was applauding was not her achievement so much as her daring.
It is clear that the work under way here is on the highest level of artistic achievement, so much so, in fact, that the principals' relative youth and lack of pretense is almost disconcerting.
Ms Martin, Labour cabinet member for leisure and culture, said: "David Brailsford has achieved so much in his life and he has contributed so much towards the achievement of this arena.
Why else would a man of such outward discipline and outsize achievement risk so much?
I've always thought of the Olympics as a kind of super-event for super-beings, with all talk of pinnacles of human endeavour and achievement as so much guff.
In addition, there often exists an underlying sentiment that urban kids should not be wasting time on holistic programs and non-academic achievement when so much improvement is needed in basic reading and math skills.
The exotic financial tools make it possible for the bank's $20 billion in short-term investments to beat the benchmark six-month London interbank rate by more than 10 basis points, or one-tenth of a percentage point, a signal achievement when so much money is involved.
It's an immensely enjoyable evening, made all the more distinctive by the interventions of film projection specialists and theatre-makers Imitating the Dog, whose flickering images on newspapers and lab coats remind that Mitchell and Kenyon's achievement was so much more than a trick of the light.
After his country's semi-final win over England, Lovren was not shy about listing his recent achievements having received so much criticism during his Premier League career.
