What do you consider your greatest achievement?

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Recorded Lupita Nyong'o said elsewhere, not written here
When I have a to-do list and finish it in the time I intended to.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗

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Keren Woodward
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

Fatima Bhutto Pakistani writer
Chekhov said, any idiot can weather a crisis, it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out. I think the same is true for great achievements. It’s not a big thing, but one ought to feel proud about the small moments in which you might have helped, cared for, or done something good for others.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was.  The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗

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