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You might be surprised to learn that someone like you has landed on the moon, started a media empire, or discovered the secret of the DNA molecule.</p> <div class="clearfix"> <ul class="social list-unstyled list-inline ssk-group m-b-0"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-facebook" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Facebook"><i class="icon-icon_facebook-circle"></i></a></li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-twitter" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Twitter"><i class="icon-icon_twitter-circle"></i></a></li>  <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-email" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever via Email"><i class="icon-icon_email-circle"></i></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="universe__mobile-message sans-2 m-t-3 m-b-3">This experience works best on iPads and larger.</div> </header> </div> <div id="canvas" class="universe__canvas">  <div class="hoverinfo"> <div class="hoverinfo__inner"> <div class="quote__wrapper"><a href="" target="_blank" class="quote"></a></div> <div class="name__wrapper"><a href="" target="_blank" class="name"></a></div> <div class="known-as__wrapper"><a href="" target="_blank" class="known-as"></a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <code style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> <script type="application/json" id="achievers"> [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron", "knownAs": "Baseball Immortal", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/HankAaron-e1453912195145.jpg", "quote": "“I finally hit the home run, got at the bases, And when I got home that night I got on my knees and prayed to the Good Lord, really thanked Him for all of the things that He had sent me through. Because really, the two years — I had really had a bad time for two years leading up to the home run.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/hank-aaron/", "career": "baseball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 1956, "name": "Yogi Berra" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "knownAs": "Basketball Scoring Champion", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/abd0-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Islam has given me a moral foundation, a way of trying to balance your own personal ambitions, what you want and need in the world, with some type of morality... There are so many problems in the Islamic world. I think those have to do with politics and the Islamic world's reaction to colonialism.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kareem-abdul-jabbar/", "career": "basketball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } ] }, { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee", "knownAs": "Three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/alb1-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-albee/", "career": "playwright writer ", "category": "writerthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } ] }, { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D.", "knownAs": "U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/alb0-006a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tenley-albright-m-d/", "career": "figure-skater ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 13524, "name": "Sir Roger Bannister" } , { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill" } , { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D." } ] }, { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews", "knownAs": "Stage and Screen Actress", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/andrews_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was learning on my feet every single performance.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julie-andrews/", "career": "actor singer ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2251, "name": "Dame Olivia de Havilland" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } ] }, { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou", "knownAs": "Poet and Historian", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/angelou_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person. Because it means that he and she have gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-angelou/", "career": "poet ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 651, "name": "Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Discoverer of the <i>Titanic</i>", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bal0-024a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-d-ballard-ph-d/", "career": "chemist explorer ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary" } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } ] }, { "id": 13524, "name": "Sir Roger Bannister", "knownAs": "Track and Field Legend", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ban0-032a-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If you have the opportunity — not a perfect opportunity — and you don't take it, you may never have another chance.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-roger-bannister-2/", "career": "athlete ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary" } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } ] }, { "id": 25916, "name": "Ehud Barak", "knownAs": "Former Prime Minister of Israel", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/barak-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“On the battlefield itself, no one will move if you are not moving. If commanders will not be the first one to climb to fire positions, every other tank crew will find some excuse not to climb. I believe that many good commanders in the field just somehow can make their overall judgment very quickly.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ehud-barak/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 1675, "name": "General David H. Petraeus, USA" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Cradle of Humankind", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ber2-001a_190x190_acf_cropped.jpg", "quote": "“No one's ever made a great discovery by surging behind a wave. I was always pushing boundaries.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lee-r-berger-ph-d/", "career": "paleoanthropologist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2568, "name": "Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee", "knownAs": "Father of the World Wide Web", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber1-009a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The web is not a network of computers, the web is a network of people.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/", "career": "mathematician physicist inventor ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2648, "name": "Ray Kurzweil" } , { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar" } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } ] }, { "id": 1956, "name": "Yogi Berra", "knownAs": "Baseball Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If I had to come back to life again, I'd like to be a ballplayer.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/", "career": "baseball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning" } , { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } , { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill" } ] }, { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos", "knownAs": "Founder and CEO, Amazon.com", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bez0-007a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I knew that if I failed, I would regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar" } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } ] }, { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto", "knownAs": "Former Prime Minister of Pakistan", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bhu0-003a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think leadership is very much predicated on the capacity to absorb defeat and overcome it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benazir-bhutto/", "career": "public-service ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D.", "knownAs": "Pioneering Neurosurgeon", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bla1-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One of the true gifts that one can have is to find out what it is that they truly love to do.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/keith-l-black/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2233, "name": "Denton A. Cooley, M.D." } , { "id": 2246, "name": "Michael E. DeBakey, M.D." } , { "id": 2632, "name": "Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/blackburn-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“A high school teacher said, 'What's a nice girl like you doing going into science'?”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elizabeth-blackburn/", "career": "biologist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2005, "name": "David Boies", "knownAs": "Counselor and Human Rights Advocate", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/boi0-012a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“A trial is essentially a morality play. You've got to have a narrative.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-boies-2/", "career": "attorney ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy" } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck" } ] }, { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bor0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The only way that the world can keep up with food production is by the improvement of science and technology.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-e-borlaug/", "career": "biologist botanist geneticist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2009, "name": "Benjamin C. Bradlee", "knownAs": "<i>The Washington Post</i>", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/bradlee-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We knew that the front page was going to be a historical document, it was going to be reproduced in the history books.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-c-bradlee/", "career": "journalist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward" } ] }, { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin", "knownAs": "Co-founder of Google Inc.", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pag0-001-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was fortunate to be at Stanford, and I was really interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 37300, "name": "Marvin Minsky, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar" } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } ] }, { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown", "knownAs": "Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bro1-001-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I must have been 12 years old. I remember it was raining. We passed by the National Gallery, and it was — that wonderful pink marble in the rain, it gets very rich rose. I remember looking up and saying to my parents, 'That's the kind of job I would like to have some day.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/", "career": "museum-director ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry" } , { "id": 2573, "name": "Philip C. Johnson" } , { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } , { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } ] }, { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/buc0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One of the things I love about doing science, it's really puzzle solving.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/linda-buck/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett", "knownAs": "Television Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bur0-001a_190x190_acf_cropped.jpg", "quote": "“I thought, this is what I want for the rest of my life, to make people laugh.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-burnett/", "career": "comedienne actor singer ", "category": "the-artsthe-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2403, "name": "Whoopi Goldberg" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } ] }, { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush", "knownAs": "41st President of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bush-007a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“And some political people do lie all the time, and step over their friend to achieve the objective themselves. But I'm one who believes that one's word of honor is about one of the most fundamentally important things there is.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-h-w-bush/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2416, "name": "Mikhail S. Gorbachev" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } ] }, { "id": 25542, "name": "Susan Butcher", "knownAs": "Champion Sled-Dog Racer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/butcher2-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have somehow abolished it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/susan-butcher/", "career": "dog-sledder ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill" } , { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 25068, "name": "Arnold Palmer" } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron", "knownAs": "Film Futurist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cam0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Just do it. Just pick up a camera and start shooting something.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-cameron/", "career": "filmmaker ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 651, "name": "Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } ] }, { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.", "knownAs": "Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Public Servant", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/car1-030-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-s-carson/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor government-official ", "category": "science-explorationpublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2233, "name": "Denton A. Cooley, M.D." } , { "id": 2246, "name": "Michael E. DeBakey, M.D." } , { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 1761, "name": "Wendy Kopp" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } ] }, { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter", "knownAs": "39th President of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/carter_760_ac-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“'Jimmy, when you have a blow to your pride and a horrible defeat, you can give up, or you can look on it as a way that God opens you to do different and even better things.' And, I said 'Ruth, I've been defeated for Governor in Georgia, and my political career is over. I don't have any future.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash", "knownAs": "Country Music Legend", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cas0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/", "career": "musician ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 24883, "name": "Carole King" } , { "id": 1717, "name": "Johnny Mathis" } ] }, { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Director, National Institutes of Health", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/collins-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2233, "name": "Denton A. Cooley, M.D.", "knownAs": "Pioneer of Heart Transplants", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cooley-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2246, "name": "Michael E. DeBakey, M.D." } , { "id": 2632, "name": "Willem J. 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And then things that might have been memorable will be lost.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/", "career": "filmmaker ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } ] }, { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio", "knownAs": "Hedge Fund Master", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dal1-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The markets are my instrument.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/", "career": "financier ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 1670, "name": "Reid Hoffman" } , { "id": 2636, "name": "Henry R. Kravis" } , { "id": 3140, "name": "Stephen A. Schwarzman" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } ] }, { "id": 2251, "name": "Dame Olivia de Havilland", "knownAs": "Two Oscars for Best Actress", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/deh0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I would like respect for difficult work well done.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } , { "id": 2561, "name": "Jeremy Irons" } , { "id": 3199, "name": "Hilary Swank" } ] }, { "id": 2246, "name": "Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Modern Cardiovascular Surgery", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/debakey-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you see someone that you can help...you get a gratification from doing it. In fact, I think that is perhaps the most important, you might say, fabric that holds the society together.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2233, "name": "Denton A. Cooley, M.D." } , { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 2632, "name": "Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. 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And, imagination is not something that's just restricted to the arts. Every scientist that I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. You have to imagine it’s possible before you can see something.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/", "career": "poet ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück" } , { "id": 2821, "name": "W. S. Merwin" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } , { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks" } ] }, { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Undersea Explorer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ear0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/", "career": "explorer ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 651, "name": "Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2295, "name": "Mohamed ElBaradei", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/elbaradei-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We cannot erect walls between the north and the south, between the rich and the poor.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/", "career": "public-service ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/elion_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was very close to my grandfather because he came over from Europe when I was about three years old, and lived very close to us. And, I watched him die, essentially, in the hospital. And that made a tremendous impression on me. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2436, "name": "Carol Greider, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D." } ] }, { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison", "knownAs": "Founder and Executive Chairman, Oracle Corporation", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ell0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } ] }, { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron", "knownAs": "Humorist, Screenwriter and Director", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/eph0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“For years, I just wrote scripts that didn’t get made. I got paid for them, but I thought, ‘Am I ever going to get a movie made?’”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/", "career": "film-director screenwriter ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks" } ] }, { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving", "knownAs": "Basketball Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/erving-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/", "career": "basketball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 25542, "name": "Susan Butcher" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } ] }, { "id": 36965, "name": "Tony Fadell", "knownAs": "iPod Mastermind and Founder of Nest", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/fadell-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing — which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/", "career": "inventor entrepreneur ", "category": "science-explorationbusiness", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 1670, "name": "Reid Hoffman" } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } ] }, { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D.", "knownAs": "Global Health Crusader", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/far1-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Women who live in poverty love their children as much as anybody else does.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/", "career": "physicianpublic-health ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 1761, "name": "Wendy Kopp" } ] }, { "id": 2327, "name": "Suzanne Farrell", "knownAs": "Ballerina Extraordinaire", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/farrell-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally as well as physically. At the dress rehearsal...I suddenly was in the real atmosphere of the theater. I felt all this sort of dust, or feelings of people who had been there before. It was palpable. And I just thought, 'this is what I wanted to be.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/", "career": "ballerina ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 24883, "name": "Carole King" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } , { "id": 3208, "name": "Dame Kiri Te Kanawa" } , { "id": 3213, "name": "Twyla Tharp" } ] }, { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field", "knownAs": "Two Oscars for Best Actress", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fie0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It changed my life. I knew that the voice of fear was something that I must never listen to. I must go to what desperately frightens me — the chance of failure — not going to what is safe. I tried to learn from that.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2251, "name": "Dame Olivia de Havilland" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3199, "name": "Hilary Swank" } ] }, { "id": 2348, "name": "Milton Friedman, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Economics", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/friedman-milton-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We have government of the people, by the bureaucracy, for the bureaucracy.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/", "career": "economist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 24997, "name": "Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2499, "name": "Peggy Noonan" } , { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D." } , { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D." } , { "id": 3254, "name": "Lech Walesa" } ] }, { "id": 2350, "name": "Carlos Fuentes", "knownAs": "Author, Scholar and Diplomat", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fuentes_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“To read and write is a paradise.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/", "career": "novelist ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } , { "id": 3247, "name": "Gore Vidal" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } ] }, { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard", "knownAs": "Novelist and Playwright", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/fug0-010a_190x190_acf_cropped.jpg", "quote": "“I have no formulas for success. None at all. All I've learned is to try and be honest on the page.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/", "career": "playwright the-arts ", "category": "writer", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } ] }, { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines", "knownAs": "Master of the Novel", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gaines-007a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/", "career": "novelist ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III", "knownAs": "Co-founder, Microsoft Corporation", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gat0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry", "knownAs": "Architecture Gold Medal", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/geh0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“There's a range of creativity possible, and I think it behooves us to explore that envelope and push at it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/", "career": "artist-and-architect ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 2573, "name": "Philip C. Johnson" } , { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } , { "id": 3249, "name": "Antonio Villaraigosa" } ] }, { "id": 39588, "name": "Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Physics", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/gell-man_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I loved the idea of structure in the world — and the power of theory — from a very early age. I was very excited at discovering relationships among things. So many people just look at facts as disconnected objects. There is an intricate pattern or interrelationship among things.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/", "career": "theoretical-physicist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 39694, "name": "Ernst Mayr, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3144, "name": "Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 39233, "name": "Carlos Ghosn", "knownAs": "Chairman of Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ghosn_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You miss 100 percent of the shots that you don't take. So it doesn't matter if you fail or if you win, but you just have to dare, be audacious, be bold, look at the direction and don't be afraid to fail.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/", "career": "automotive-executive ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2636, "name": "Henry R. Kravis" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 38594, "name": "Leslie H. Wexner" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill", "knownAs": "Country Music Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gil0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Songwriters are like painters. They paint pictures in their words and in their songs.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/", "career": "musician singer songwriter ", "category": "the-artsthe-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 24883, "name": "Carole King" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } ] }, { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "knownAs": "Justice, Supreme Court of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gin0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Even if you meet Prince Charming, be able to fend for yourself.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/", "career": "attorney ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy" } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 35320, "name": "Sonia Sotomayor" } ] }, { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück", "knownAs": "Former Poet Laureate of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/glu0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance — bad luck, loss, pain.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/", "career": "poet ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 2821, "name": "W. S. Merwin" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } ] }, { "id": 2403, "name": "Whoopi Goldberg", "knownAs": "Actress and Activist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gol0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I feel a bit like the golden child. But you only know that when you look back, and see the people who touched you, and how friends, camp counselors, people who denied you humanity that you overcame. People who said you couldn't, and you shouldn't, and you won't, and you will never — and you did.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2450, "name": "Lauryn Hill" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall", "knownAs": "Primatologist and Anthropologist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/goo0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Walking out on the plains — the smells, the animals, the wildness. It was just complete magic.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/", "career": "anthropologist primatologist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2568, "name": "Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize for History", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/goodwin_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I just want them to come alive again. That's all you really ask of history.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 2499, "name": "Peggy Noonan" } , { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward" } ] }, { "id": 2416, "name": "Mikhail S. Gorbachev", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gorbachev-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Very little good could be achieved. Therefore, the system had to be changed.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 24997, "name": "Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. 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Gaines" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3185, "name": "Wole Soyinka" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Evolutionary Biologist and Historian of Science", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gould-760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“These grand questions about the history of life have to fascinate any thinking person. We want to know why we're here.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/", "career": "science-exploration ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 39694, "name": "Ernst Mayr, Ph.D." } , { "id": 37467, "name": "Oliver Sacks, M.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2436, "name": "Carol Greider, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/greider-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was in the 7th or 8th grade, getting straight A's in science, that I was teased a fair amount: 'What are you going to do, become a scientist?'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2438, "name": "John Grisham", "knownAs": "Bestselling Author", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grisham-2001-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I had a story. It was a courtroom drama. I was doing a lot of courtroom work; I was a very young lawyer…I was sort of consumed with this story. And one night I just said, 'Okay. I’m going to try to capture it, see what I can do with words.’ And, that’s what happened.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 2776, "name": "Frank McCourt" } , { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } ] }, { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill", "knownAs": "U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill-007a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/", "career": "figure-skater ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 2327, "name": "Suzanne Farrell" } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } , { "id": 3213, "name": "Twyla Tharp" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2450, "name": "Lauryn Hill", "knownAs": "Singer, Songwriter and Rapper", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/hill_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I really try every day to be individual, and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/", "career": "musician singer songwriter ", "category": "the-artsthe-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 2403, "name": "Whoopi Goldberg" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 1660, "name": "Esperanza Spalding" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } ] }, { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary", "knownAs": "Conqueror of Mount Everest", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hillary-760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/", "career": "explorer ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 651, "name": "Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D." } , { "id": 13524, "name": "Sir Roger Bannister" } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN" } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } ] }, { "id": 1670, "name": "Reid Hoffman", "knownAs": "Internet Entrepreneur", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hoffman-01a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Entrepreneurship is: You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin" } , { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } ] }, { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D.", "knownAs": "Storytelling Phenomenon", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hosseini-760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was so taken with the story and so swept up in that world that I had to write it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2295, "name": "Mohamed ElBaradei" } , { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2438, "name": "John Grisham" } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } ] }, { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard", "knownAs": "Oscar for Best Director", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/howard-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I really believe that great creative ideas will find their way to the surface.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/", "career": "film-director ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } ] }, { "id": 2481, "name": "John Hume", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hume-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If thousands of soldiers in our streets can't stop the violence, then if I can save one single human life by talking, it's my duty to do so.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/", "career": "public-service ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 3229, "name": "David Trimble" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 1650, "name": "Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ign0-001a_190x190_acf_cropped.jpg", "quote": "“Seventy percent of Americans suffer from some kind of cardiovascular disease — 95 percent of that is due to poor lifestyle.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/", "career": "chemist scientist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D." } ] }, { "id": 2541, "name": "Daniel K. 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That was how I viewed a career. I would start at the bottom and I'd work my way up the ladder and then I'd retire and, after a little bit, I'd die...And, to be an outsider seemed to me to be very, very attractive.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2403, "name": "Whoopi Goldberg" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } , { "id": 3199, "name": "Hilary Swank" } ] }, { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving", "knownAs": "National Book Award", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/irving_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The building of the architecture of a novel — the craft of it — is something I never tire of.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 2438, "name": "John Grisham" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. 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I lived at home with my parents because I couldn't afford not to.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/", "career": "filmmaker ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } , { "id": 3208, "name": "Dame Kiri Te Kanawa" } ] }, { "id": 2568, "name": "Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Discoverer of Lucy", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/johanson-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If we succeeded, I knew that there would be a downside to it. And the downside was that I upset the apple cart. But I've always felt that risk-taking is an important part of what it means to be a human being.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/", "career": "science-exploration ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr.", "knownAs": "Presidential Medal of Freedom", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/johnson-frank-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. 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'I've got a wonderful idea!'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/", "career": "architect ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry" } , { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist" } , { "id": 3213, "name": "Twyla Tharp" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } ] }, { "id": 2575, "name": "Chuck Jones", "knownAs": "Animation Pioneer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/jones-chuck0-006a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. And to this day, that's been the astonishment of my life, and the wonder of my life...I like to work with the tools of my trade. The tools of my trade is a lot of paper and a pencil, and that's all it is.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/", "career": "animator ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } , { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist" } ] }, { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones", "knownAs": "Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/jones-james-earl-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I didn't expect anything, no one asked me to be an actor, no one owed me. There's no entitlement...The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet. Actors have to accept that. So the idea of not getting work, that's part of the territory.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2561, "name": "Jeremy Irons" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones", "knownAs": "Music Impresario", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jones_q_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It’s like a melody. You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/", "career": "musician ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2450, "name": "Lauryn Hill" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 972, "name": "Thomas Keller", "knownAs": "Culinary Impresario", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/kel0-001a-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Interaction around a dinner table. That, to me, is the most important. That truly defines our success.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/", "career": "restaurateur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2309, "name": "Nora Ephron" } , { "id": 13207, "name": "Martha Stewart" } , { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D." } ] }, { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy", "knownAs": "Justice, Supreme Court of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/kennedy_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/", "career": "public-service ", "category": "", "related": [ { "id": 2005, "name": "David Boies" } , { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 35320, "name": "Sonia Sotomayor" } ] }, { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King", "knownAs": "King of the Blues", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/king-bb-001-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think that there’s a place for playing the guitar. There’s a place for singing the blues.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/", "career": "musician ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 24883, "name": "Carole King", "knownAs": "Singer and Songwriter", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/king-carole-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I didn't feel beautiful when I was growing up. And I found my niche. I couldn't compete with girls who were thought of as beautiful, so I found my niche in music. And that was where I found my beauty.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/", "career": "singer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 1717, "name": "Johnny Mathis" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } ] }, { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King", "knownAs": "Pioneer of Civil Rights", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/king-cs-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“When God calls you to a great task, He provides you with the strength to accomplish what He has called you to do. Faith and prayer, family and friends were always available when I needed them…I learned that when you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/", "career": "activist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks" } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 24997, "name": "Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/kissinger_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/", "career": "diplomat ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 2632, "name": "Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Artificial Organs", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/kolff-013a-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The exciting thing is to see somebody who is doomed to die, live and be happy.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1761, "name": "Wendy Kopp", "knownAs": "Founder, Teach for America", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/kop0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I had this idea that this was going to change the consciousness of the country.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/", "career": "educator ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 2776, "name": "Frank McCourt" } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 3249, "name": "Antonio Villaraigosa" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2636, "name": "Henry R. Kravis", "knownAs": "Financier and Investor", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/kravis-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We have a fear all the time. But that's what keeps us going, that's what keeps us focused. People who say 'I have no fear. I'm not afraid of ever failing,' are kidding themselves. It's the fear of failure, of not wanting to fail, that makes people as great as they are. I know that's what pushes me.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/", "career": "financier ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 3140, "name": "Stephen A. Schwarzman" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "knownAs": "Journalist, Author and Columnist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/kristof-Achiever-Profile-Square-760-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/", "career": "journalist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2329, "name": "Paul Farmer, M.D." } , { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 2499, "name": "Peggy Noonan" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward" } ] }, { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski", "knownAs": "Collegiate Basketball Champion", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/krzyzewski_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/", "career": "basketball-coach ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } ] }, { "id": 2648, "name": "Ray Kurzweil", "knownAs": "Inventor and Futurist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/kurzweil-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/", "career": "inventor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 37300, "name": "Marvin Minsky, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page" } ] }, { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Human Genome Pioneer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/lander-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You take pieces you love and then you fashion a life out of it, rather than looking for the pieces to fit some particular mold.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2648, "name": "Ray Kurzweil" } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.", "knownAs": "Biomedical Engineering", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/langer_760_SQUARE-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was a chemical engineer on the one hand, and then I would be exposed to medicine. I would have two different disciplines. They were so different. You'd think 'Well, you could combine them,' and that would give me ideas that nobody at that time had — because nobody else had that kind of background.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/", "career": "scientist chemist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 2632, "name": "Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey", "knownAs": "Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/leakey_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If you want something done by me, suggest it can't be done.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/", "career": "anthropologist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1734, "name": "Lee R. Berger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2568, "name": "Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lefkowitz3-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I can say this in all honesty, it never crossed my mind that I would fail.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/", "career": "chemist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } ] }, { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis", "knownAs": "Champion of Civil Rights", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lewis_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/", "career": "activist politician ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks" } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin", "knownAs": "Artist and Architect", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/lin-760_ac-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The process I go through in art and architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/", "career": "artist-and-architect ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry" } , { "id": 2573, "name": "Philip C. Johnson" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } , { "id": 13089, "name": "Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN" } ] }, { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas", "knownAs": "Creator of <i>Star Wars</i>", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lucas_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“My first six years in the business were hopeless. A lot of times I'd say, 'Why am I doing this?'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/", "career": "filmmaker entrepreneur ", "category": "the-artsbusiness", "related": [ { "id": 2081, "name": "James Cameron" } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer", "knownAs": "National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mailer_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“At 16, I was immensely innocent, but at the same time, I had the kind of arrogance that every writer needs. You can't become a serious professional writer unless there is a built-in arrogance about yourself. It's a vanity and when the vanity is misplaced — as it usually is — it's sad, if not tragic.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } , { "id": 3247, "name": "Gore Vidal" } ] }, { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning", "knownAs": "Super Bowl Champion Quarterback", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/manning-Achiever-Profile-Square-760-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One thing that can never be sacrificed is your preparation and your work ethic.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/", "career": "athlete football-player ", "category": "sportssports", "related": [ { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 25542, "name": "Susan Butcher" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 3064, "name": "Pete Rozelle" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } ] }, { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize for Music", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/marsalis_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You can't let the anger burn you up. You want to be mad; you don't want to lose it. Because when you lose the anger, you lose your force. But you don't want the anger to supplant the greatest force, which is love, and that's a benevolent force.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/", "career": "musician ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 2450, "name": "Lauryn Hill" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 3037, "name": "Sonny Rollins" } , { "id": 1660, "name": "Esperanza Spalding" } ] }, { "id": 1756, "name": "John C. Mather, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Physics", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mat1-008a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The life of a scientist is all about the creative process.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/", "career": "physicist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 11837, "name": "Mario J. Molina, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3144, "name": "Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN" } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1717, "name": "Johnny Mathis", "knownAs": "Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mathis_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We weren't poor, we just didn't have any money.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/", "career": "musician singer ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 58, "name": "Johnny Cash" } , { "id": 2394, "name": "Vince Gill" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } ] }, { "id": 39694, "name": "Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Evolutionary Biologist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mayr_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was a born naturalist. At the age of six, already I was a passionate bird watcher...I was dreaming all the time about someday being an explorer, going to the tropics, going to the jungles, seeing new things, discovering strange animals and so forth — but, of course, it was a dream world.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/", "career": "naturalist zoologist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 37231, "name": "Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays", "knownAs": "Baseball Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/may0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It was such a beautiful game that I just wanted to play it forever.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/", "career": "baseball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 1956, "name": "Yogi Berra" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } ] }, { "id": 2776, "name": "Frank McCourt", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize for Biography", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mccourt-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You have to, above all, find the voice, and it took me all those years, not until I retired. But I had the material. That's the main thing. The material was circling around my head and lying there in my notebooks waiting to be tapped.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2821, "name": "W. S. Merwin" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough", "knownAs": "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mccullough_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I taught myself how to do research, how to dig out the pieces...I discovered in the process that, contrary to the notion that the past is a dead thing, that in fact wherever you scratch the surface, you find life. And it was the life, the people and what happened to them, that was the pull for me.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener" } , { "id": 2499, "name": "Peggy Noonan" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 3247, "name": "Gore Vidal" } ] }, { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald", "knownAs": "Six Tony Awards", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mcd0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/", "career": "singer actor ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2338, "name": "Sally Field" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } ] }, { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. 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Merwin", "knownAs": "Former Poet Laureate of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/merwin-Achiever-Profile-Square-760-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think poetry goes back to the invention of language itself.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/", "career": "poet ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 2350, "name": "Carlos Fuentes" } , { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } ] }, { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mic0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Then along came these differential experiences that you don't look for, that you don't plan for, but, boy, you better not miss them. The things that make you bigger than you are. The things that give you a vision. The things that give you a challenge.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/", "career": "writer novelist ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2350, "name": "Carlos Fuentes" } , { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 3247, "name": "Gore Vidal" } ] }, { "id": 37300, "name": "Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Artificial Intelligence", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/minsky_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I started to suggest that people work on artificial intelligence — I invented neural networks and things, and different ideas in psychology — and I noticed people would tell each other, 'Well, that might sound nutty, but he's a good mathematician and he's proved these pretty good theorems.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/", "career": "mathematician computer-scientist inventor ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2648, "name": "Ray Kurzweil" } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 11837, "name": "Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/molina-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Finding out for myself, for the first time, how something works is really an enormous driving force.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/", "career": "chemist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2350, "name": "Carlos Fuentes" } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2894, "name": "N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize for Fiction", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/momaday-013a-380x380.png", "quote": "“A poem, if it succeeds, brings together the best of your intelligence, the best of your articulation, the best of your emotion. And that is the highest goal of literature.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/", "career": "poet novelist ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück" } , { "id": 2821, "name": "W. S. Merwin" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } ] }, { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D.", "knownAs": "Dean of American Astronauts", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/musgrave-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if you have the courage to grab the reins and take hold of your current life, then the past really becomes a rather nice place, no matter what went on.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/", "career": "astronaut ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1756, "name": "John C. Mather, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN" } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } ] }, { "id": 37465, "name": "Ralph Nader", "knownAs": "Consumer Crusader", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nader-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“One time when I was nine or ten years old, I came home from school...and my dad said to me, 'Well, Ralph, what did you learn in school today? Did you learn how to believe or did you learn how to think?' So, I'm saying to myself, 'What's the difference between the two?'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/", "career": "activist attorney ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. 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Kristof" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward" } ] }, { "id": 2922, "name": "Jessye Norman", "knownAs": "Legendary Opera Soprano", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/norman_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I am just trying to live my life in song.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/", "career": "singer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 1717, "name": "Johnny Mathis" } , { "id": 3208, "name": "Dame Kiri Te Kanawa" } ] }, { "id": 13221, "name": "Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN", "knownAs": "Medal of Honor", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/norris-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You have a determination not to give up. And my injury — when you see the death and destruction to other people that you see in war — I mean, what I have is nothing. So I lost an eye and part of my head and brain and had some other bodily injuries. I have another eye. You just go on.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN" } , { "id": 13089, "name": "Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN" } ] }, { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates", "knownAs": "National Book Award", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/oates-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2401, "name": "Louise Glück" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. Michener" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } ] }, { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar", "knownAs": "Founder of eBay", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/omidyar_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 1670, "name": "Reid Hoffman" } ] }, { "id": 2058, "name": "Larry Page", "knownAs": "Co-founder of Google Inc.", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pag0-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We didn't start out to build a search engine at all.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1947, "name": "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" } , { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2018, "name": "Sergey Brin" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 37300, "name": "Marvin Minsky, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 25068, "name": "Arnold Palmer", "knownAs": "The King of Golf", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/palmer-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“America is a great place. From the days of my not being able to enjoy the luxuries of a country club, I now own the club and I do enjoy it. And I'm very pleased and I feel very privileged that this country has given people like myself the opportunity to do the things that I've been able to do.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/arnold-palmer/", "career": "athlete ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 1956, "name": "Yogi Berra" } , { "id": 25542, "name": "Susan Butcher" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } , { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill" } , { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning" } ] }, { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks", "knownAs": "Pioneer of Civil Rights", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/parks-rosa-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Two policemen came on the bus, and one asked me if the driver had told me to stand…He wanted to know why I didn't stand, and I told him I didn't think I should have to stand up. I asked him, why did they push us around? He said, 'I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/", "career": "activist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young" } ] }, { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize for Drama", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/parks-suzan-lori-760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“My writing all comes from listening. The more I can listen, the more I can write.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzan-lori-parks/", "career": "playwright writer ", "category": "writerthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } ] }, { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pauling-014a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I have always liked working in some scientific direction that nobody else is working in.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/linus-pauling/", "career": "chemist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1745, "name": "Robert S. Langer, Sc.D." } , { "id": 3144, "name": "Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/peres_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If you want to serve the future, don't be afraid to belong to a minority.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/shimon-peres/", "career": "diplomat government-official ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 25916, "name": "Ehud Barak" } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2416, "name": "Mikhail S. Gorbachev" } , { "id": 2481, "name": "John Hume" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 1675, "name": "General David H. Petraeus, USA", "knownAs": "Military Strategist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/petraeus0-017a-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Life is a competitive endeavor. And there's nothing more competitive, obviously, than combat.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-david-petraeus/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2541, "name": "Daniel K. Inouye" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } , { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. 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Powell, USA", "knownAs": "Congressional Gold Medal", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/powell-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Built into each of us is a little calculator that can make judgments that will never appear on a piece of paper. And sometimes you know something's right, you can't prove it to anybody, or you know something's wrong. Little ethical circuit breakers you carry around inside...so I go with my instinct.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 24997, "name": "Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks" } , { "id": 1675, "name": "General David H. Petraeus, USA" } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } ] }, { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince", "knownAs": "Broadway Producer and Director", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/prince-Achiever-Profile-Square-760-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“All you need as a young person is one person who you respect to say: 'You can do this. Do it!'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/harold-prince/", "career": "theatrical-director ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2561, "name": "Jeremy Irons" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim" } ] }, { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards", "knownAs": "Tony Award-winning Director", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/richards-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If you aspire at all, you're taking a risk. If you aspire as a young black person to something where there is not a beaten path, you're taking a risk. So risk is nothing new in your life. But then, some risks cost more than others. I never decided to take risks with my life, I just had no choice.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lloyd-richards/", "career": "theatrical-director ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 2942, "name": "Suzan-Lori Parks" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } ] }, { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "First American Woman in Space", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ride-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-ride-ph-d/", "career": "astronaut physicist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2278, "name": "Sylvia Earle, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D." } , { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. 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King" } , { "id": 2577, "name": "James Earl Jones" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 1660, "name": "Esperanza Spalding" } ] }, { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero", "knownAs": "Executive Director, ACLU", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/romero_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The law has been such a creative force for helping us understand what we should be, not just what we are.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-romero/", "career": "attorney activist ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck" } , { "id": 35320, "name": "Sonia Sotomayor" } , { "id": 3249, "name": "Antonio Villaraigosa" } ] }, { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist", "knownAs": "Pop Art Pioneer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/rosenquist-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings...And then finally, they leap, they take off...they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-rosenquist/", "career": "artist ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 2238, "name": "Francis Ford Coppola" } , { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry" } , { "id": 2573, "name": "Philip C. Johnson" } , { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud" } ] }, { "id": 3064, "name": "Pete Rozelle", "knownAs": "Pro Football Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rozelle-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If Jesus Christ were alive today, He would be attending the Super Bowl.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pete-rozelle/", "career": "football-commissioner sports-executive-business ", "category": "sportsbusiness", "related": [ { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning" } , { "id": 25068, "name": "Arnold Palmer" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } ] }, { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell", "knownAs": "Basketball Hall of Fame", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/russell-Achiever-Profile-Square-760-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“At that time, it was never acceptable that a black player was the best.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/", "career": "basketball-player ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2772, "name": "Willie Mays" } , { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden" } ] }, { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs", "knownAs": "Constitutional Court of South Africa", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sachs_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It was a car bomb. I collapsed into darkness, but with a sense of euphoria. I’d survived. For many decades, every single day in the freedom struggle, wondering, ‘If they come for me today, if they come for me tomorrow morning, will I be brave? Will I survive?' They’d come for me and I'd got through.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/albie-sachs/", "career": "activist attorney judge ", "category": "public-servicepublic-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 37467, "name": "Oliver Sacks, M.D.", "knownAs": "Neurologist and Author", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sacks-oliver-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The interest in science was something secret and private. Later, when I did science at school, I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. I didn't enjoy school. I enjoyed museums, botanical gardens, libraries, laboratories, where one was immediately in contact with — I'm not fond of schools and textbooks.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/oliver-sacks-m-d/", "career": "neurologist writer ", "category": "science-explorationthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2083, "name": "Benjamin S. Carson, M.D." } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D.", "knownAs": "Developer of the Polio Vaccine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/salk-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do or what not to do.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jonas-salk-m-d/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor scientist ", "category": "science-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 1997, "name": "Keith L. Black, M.D." } , { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 37506, "name": "Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sanger-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and if you don't get a gold medal, you're nothing. There are actually a lot of people working together and contributing to the science — and the science is the important thing.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-sanger-ph-d/", "career": "biochemist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 974, "name": "Jonas Salk, M.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck", "knownAs": "The Innocence Project", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/scheck2-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I've never had a problem being a criminal defense lawyer. I think it's liberty's last champion.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/barry-scheck/", "career": "activist attorney ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2438, "name": "John Grisham" } , { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy" } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 35320, "name": "Sonia Sotomayor" } ] }, { "id": 37231, "name": "Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Modern Ethnobotany", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/schultes-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Many of our common medicines were first discovered from plants, later synthesized to make them more available. But in the Amazon, for example, there are 80,000 species of plants. To give you some measuring rod, New England has only 1,900. 80,000 species!”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-evans-schultes-ph-d/", "career": "ethnobotanist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D." } , { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA", "knownAs": "Congressional Gold Medal", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/schwarzkopf-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“There's nothing wrong with being afraid. And true courage is not not being afraid. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 1675, "name": "General David H. Petraeus, USA" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } ] }, { "id": 3140, "name": "Stephen A. Schwarzman", "knownAs": "Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/schwarzman_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We're not talking about brain surgery here. This is finance — add, subtract, multiply and divide.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-schwarzman/", "career": "financier ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2636, "name": "Henry R. Kravis" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } ] }, { "id": 3144, "name": "Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Discoverer of Plutonium", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/seaborg-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of their own, they don't have this sense of history. They didn't live through this most terrifying period when we thought we were losing the race with Adolf Hitler.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/glenn-t-seaborg-ph-d/", "career": "chemist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 24997, "name": "Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1756, "name": "John C. Mather, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan", "knownAs": "Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sheehan4-008a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Journalism is really a fourth branch of government.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/neil-sheehan/", "career": "journalist ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN" } , { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward" } ] }, { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN", "knownAs": "First American in Space", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/shepard-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason. You have to be there not for fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-alan-shepard-jr/", "career": "astronaut ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 651, "name": "Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary" } , { "id": 1756, "name": "John C. Mather, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } ] }, { "id": 3175, "name": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sirleaf-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You've got to stay the course and suffer the consequences, the indignities and the difficulties.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ellen-johnson-sirleaf/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 1975, "name": "Benazir Bhutto" } , { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú", "knownAs": "Financier and Philanthropist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/slim-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Bad governments worry about the rich. Good governments worry about the poor.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-slim/", "career": "financier ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2636, "name": "Henry R. Kravis" } , { "id": 3140, "name": "Stephen A. Schwarzman" } ] }, { "id": 3181, "name": "Frederick W. Smith", "knownAs": "Founder and Chairman, FedEx Corporation", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/smith-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I was very, very, very sure that what we were doing was extremely important and was destined to be successful. So, that's the definition of an insane person or a zealot. And most entrepreneurs, I think you would find, have that sort of green wire laid in there just a little bit crosswise.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-w-smith/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 2934, "name": "Pierre Omidyar" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } ] }, { "id": 3183, "name": "Stephen Sondheim", "knownAs": "Composer and Lyricist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sondheim-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-sondheim/", "career": "composer lyricist ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } , { "id": 3208, "name": "Dame Kiri Te Kanawa" } ] }, { "id": 35320, "name": "Sonia Sotomayor", "knownAs": "Justice, Supreme Court of the United States", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sotomayor-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way — through the power of words — to change the world.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sonia-sotomayor/", "career": "attorney judge ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2397, "name": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" } , { "id": 2570, "name": "Frank M. Johnson, Jr." } , { "id": 2600, "name": "Anthony M. Kennedy" } , { "id": 1726, "name": "Anthony Romero" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck" } ] }, { "id": 3185, "name": "Wole Soyinka", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Literature", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/soyinka-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Writing became a therapy. I was reconstructing my own existence. It was also an act of defiance.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wole-soyinka/", "career": "writer playwright poet ", "category": "the-artswriterthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1838, "name": "Edward Albee" } , { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3175, "name": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 1660, "name": "Esperanza Spalding", "knownAs": "Jazz Phenomenon", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spalding_760_ac-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Art is never over. And you're never over, because through your art you're continually reinventing yourself and regenerating yourself.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/esperanza-spalding/", "career": "musician ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2450, "name": "Lauryn Hill" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 55, "name": "B.B. King" } , { "id": 24883, "name": "Carole King" } , { "id": 2716, "name": "Wynton Marsalis" } , { "id": 3037, "name": "Sonny Rollins" } ] }, { "id": 13207, "name": "Martha Stewart", "knownAs": "Multimedia Lifestyle Entrepreneur", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The big, big turning point was when I wrote my first book. Americans look at you very differently, respect you greatly more when you write a book. The printed word…I mean it doesn’t even matter if it’s good, you have become an expert in everyone’s viewpoint.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/martha-stewart/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 972, "name": "Thomas Keller" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } , { "id": 3181, "name": "Frederick W. Smith" } , { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D." } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN", "knownAs": "Medal of Honor", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stockdale-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-james-b-stockdale/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 13221, "name": "Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 13089, "name": "Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN" } ] }, { "id": 3199, "name": "Hilary Swank", "knownAs": "Two Oscars for Best Actress", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/swank-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I didn't have formal acting training. I just had my mom who believed in me.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/hilary-swank/", "career": "actor ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1919, "name": "Dame Julie Andrews" } , { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2251, "name": "Dame Olivia de Havilland" } , { "id": 2479, "name": "Ron Howard" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 1706, "name": "Barry Scheck" } ] }, { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan", "knownAs": "Bestselling Novelist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/tan-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“ I think that's why I'm a storyteller. I take all these disparate events and connect them. I have to make them seem inevitable and yet surprising and plausible. That's what I think life is like, too. I have the luxury to do exactly what it is we all need time to do...think about the mystery of life.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/amy-tan/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2273, "name": "Rita Dove" } , { "id": 2357, "name": "Ernest J. Gaines" } , { "id": 2476, "name": "Khaled Hosseini, M.D." } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } ] }, { "id": 3208, "name": "Dame Kiri Te Kanawa", "knownAs": "Beloved Opera Singer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tekanawa_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dame-kiri-te-kanawa/", "career": "opera-singer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2251, "name": "Dame Olivia de Havilland" } , { "id": 2566, "name": "Sir Peter Jackson" } , { "id": 1717, "name": "Johnny Mathis" } , { "id": 2784, "name": "Audra McDonald" } , { "id": 2922, "name": "Jessye Norman" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } ] }, { "id": 3211, "name": "Edward Teller, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/teller_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“If I claim credit for anything, I should not claim credit for knowledge, but for courage.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-teller-ph-d/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2416, "name": "Mikhail S. Gorbachev" } , { "id": 2541, "name": "Daniel K. Inouye" } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3144, "name": "Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3227, "name": "Charles H. Townes, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel" } ] }, { "id": 3213, "name": "Twyla Tharp", "knownAs": "Dancer and Choreographer", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/tharp-013a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel repetition is the order of the day.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/twyla-tharp/", "career": "dancer choreographer ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 1849, "name": "Tenley Albright, M.D." } , { "id": 1712, "name": "Carol Burnett" } , { "id": 2327, "name": "Suzanne Farrell" } , { "id": 3011, "name": "Harold Prince" } , { "id": 3023, "name": "Lloyd Richards" } , { "id": 1660, "name": "Esperanza Spalding" } ] }, { "id": 3215, "name": "Wayne Thiebaud", "knownAs": "Painter and Teacher", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/thiebaud-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“The nerve of failure I think is paramount. Learning by mistakes, modifying, reconstituting, reorganizing.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wayne-thiebaud/", "career": "artist ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2020, "name": "J. Carter Brown" } , { "id": 2392, "name": "Frank O. Gehry" } , { "id": 2573, "name": "Philip C. Johnson" } , { "id": 2575, "name": "Chuck Jones" } , { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 3057, "name": "James Rosenquist" } ] }, { "id": 13089, "name": "Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN", "knownAs": "Medal of Honor", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/thornton-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You can only take your memories, and your word, and your honor to the grave.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lt-michael-e-thornton-usn/", "career": "military-soldier ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2667, "name": "Maya Lin" } , { "id": 1681, "name": "Admiral William H. McRaven, USN" } , { "id": 13221, "name": "Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } , { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. 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Lewis" } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner", "knownAs": "Founder, Cable News Network", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/turner-760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It was probably crazy. Take a local station, put it on the satellite. And there were regulations against it.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ted-turner/", "career": "entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 579, "name": "Hank Aaron" } , { "id": 2256, "name": "Michael S. Dell" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 2381, "name": "William H. Gates III" } , { "id": 3177, "name": "Carlos Slim Helú" } , { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey" } ] }, { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tutu_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I never doubted that we were going to be free because, ultimately, I knew there was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/desmond-tutu/", "career": "minister ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 1665, "name": "Athol Fugard" } , { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. 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When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/gore-vidal/", "career": "writer ", "category": "the-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2564, "name": "John Irving" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 2821, "name": "W. S. Merwin" } , { "id": 2823, "name": "James A. 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Young" } ] }, { "id": 3254, "name": "Lech Walesa", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wal0-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“When I continued saying that we were going to win against communism by peaceful means, they looked at me like a madman.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lech-walesa/", "career": "politician ", "category": "public-service", "related": [ { "id": 2077, "name": "George H. W. Bush" } , { "id": 2416, "name": "Mikhail S. Gorbachev" } , { "id": 2481, "name": "John Hume" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Discoverer of the DNA Molecule", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/watson_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Suddenly to see the molecule which is responsible for heredity, and makes possible human existence, was a big step in man's understanding of himself in the same sense that Darwin knew that the human species wasn't fixed — that we were changing. It was bound to affect your attitude to everything.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-d-watson/", "career": "scientist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2073, "name": "Linda Buck, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 3266, "name": "Andrew Weil, M.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Integrative Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/weil-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.'”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/andrew-weil-m-d/", "career": "surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2007, "name": "Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D." } , { "id": 972, "name": "Thomas Keller" } , { "id": 2648, "name": "Ray Kurzweil" } , { "id": 37467, "name": "Oliver Sacks, M.D." } , { "id": 37231, "name": "Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 38594, "name": "Leslie H. Wexner", "knownAs": "Retailing and Fashion", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/wexner_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I decided quite subconsciously that I was going to prove to my dad that I had real worth and could do something, but the only language he understood was his business. I thought 'his business was wrong. I’m going to do one that’s right' and invented one in my mind and began making sketches of stores.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leslie-h-wexner/", "career": "business entrepreneur ", "category": "business", "related": [ { "id": 1962, "name": "Jeffrey P. Bezos" } , { "id": 2243, "name": "Ray Dalio" } , { "id": 2305, "name": "Larry J. Ellison" } , { "id": 3181, "name": "Frederick W. Smith" } , { "id": 13207, "name": "Martha Stewart" } , { "id": 3233, "name": "Robert Edward (Ted) Turner" } ] }, { "id": 3272, "name": "Elie Wiesel", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize for Peace", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wiesel_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I think of the killer and I lose all faith, but then I think of the victim and I am inundated with compassion.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elie-wiesel/", "career": "activist journalist ", "category": "public-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2419, "name": "Nadine Gordimer" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 2964, "name": "Shimon Peres" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3185, "name": "Wole Soyinka" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 3280, "name": "Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Father of Sociobiology", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wilson-032a-1-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“I had a bug period like every kid. I just never outgrew mine. I had a kid's natural inclination to explore the environment...Part of the reason was I was an only kid, partly because I could see in only one eye...So, I tended to look very closely at things that were very small.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-o-wilson-ph-d/", "career": "sociobiologist ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2412, "name": "Dame Jane Goodall" } , { "id": 2434, "name": "Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2657, "name": "Richard E. Leakey" } , { "id": 39694, "name": "Ernst Mayr, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2958, "name": "Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 3282, "name": "Oprah Winfrey", "knownAs": "Media Entrepreneur", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/winfrey_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/oprah-winfrey/", "career": "entrepreneur actress ", "category": "businessthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 601, "name": "Maya Angelou" } , { "id": 2589, "name": "Quincy Jones" } , { "id": 2669, "name": "George Lucas" } , { "id": 3005, "name": "Sidney Poitier" } , { "id": 13207, "name": "Martha Stewart" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] }, { "id": 39267, "name": "Tom Wolfe", "knownAs": "America's Master Novelist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wolfe-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Every person on this earth has a great story to tell.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tom-wolfe/", "career": "journalist-and-author novelist ", "category": "the-artsthe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2259, "name": "Joan Didion" } , { "id": 2671, "name": "Norman Mailer" } , { "id": 2931, "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" } , { "id": 3201, "name": "Amy Tan" } , { "id": 3240, "name": "John Updike" } , { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF" } ] }, { "id": 3288, "name": "John Wooden", "knownAs": "Basketball's Coaching Legend", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wooden_760_ac-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-wooden/", "career": "basketball-coach ", "category": "sports", "related": [ { "id": 599, "name": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" } , { "id": 2316, "name": "Julius Erving" } , { "id": 2442, "name": "Dorothy Hamill" } , { "id": 2644, "name": "Mike Krzyzewski" } , { "id": 2682, "name": "Peyton Manning" } , { "id": 3068, "name": "Bill Russell" } ] }, { "id": 2062, "name": "Bob Woodward", "knownAs": "Investigative Journalist", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/woodward-001a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“You won't achieve understanding of a person or an issue in a day. Take your time, dig, go back.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/bob-woodward/", "career": "journalist writer ", "category": "public-servicethe-arts", "related": [ { "id": 2009, "name": "Benjamin C. Bradlee" } , { "id": 2414, "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2638, "name": "Nicholas D. Kristof" } , { "id": 2778, "name": "David McCullough" } , { "id": 3008, "name": "General Colin L. Powell, USA" } , { "id": 3150, "name": "Neil Sheehan" } ] }, { "id": 36766, "name": "Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.", "knownAs": "Nobel Prize in Medicine", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Achiever-Profile-Square-760-yamanaka-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“Failure is a beginning of success. Negative results gave me many insights into new directions.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/shinya-yamanaka-m-d-ph-d/", "career": "scientist medical-research surgeon-medical-doctor ", "category": "science-explorationscience-explorationscience-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2001, "name": "Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D." } , { "id": 2208, "name": "Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D." } , { "id": 2302, "name": "Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc." } , { "id": 2650, "name": "Eric S. Lander, Ph.D." } , { "id": 1655, "name": "Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D." } , { "id": 3262, "name": "James D. Watson, Ph.D." } ] }, { "id": 3296, "name": "General Chuck Yeager, USAF", "knownAs": "First Man to Break the Sound Barrier", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/yeager-032a-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“It’s your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don’t know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It’s that simple if you’re a military guy. You don’t say ‘I’m not going to do that — that’s dangerous.' If it’s your duty to do it, that’s the way it is.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-chuck-yeager/", "career": "pilot ", "category": "science-exploration", "related": [ { "id": 2452, "name": "Sir Edmund Hillary" } , { "id": 2902, "name": "Story Musgrave, M.D." } , { "id": 3025, "name": "Sally K. Ride, Ph.D." } , { "id": 3138, "name": "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA" } , { "id": 3148, "name": "Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN" } , { "id": 3192, "name": "Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN" } ] }, { "id": 3298, "name": "Andrew J. Young", "knownAs": "Civil Rights Ambassador", "image": "/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/young_760_SQUARE-380x380.jpg", "quote": "“We as Americans are the champions of human rights. It's a revelation from God to our Founding Fathers.”", "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/andrew-young/", "career": "politician activist diplomat ", "category": "public-servicepublic-servicepublic-service", "related": [ { "id": 2101, "name": "Jimmy Carter" } , { "id": 2610, "name": "Coretta Scott King" } , { "id": 1701, "name": "Congressman John R. Lewis" } , { "id": 1776, "name": "Rosa Parks" } , { "id": 3070, "name": "Albie Sachs" } , { "id": 3236, "name": "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" } ] } ] </script> </code> </div> </main> </div> </div> <footer class="content-info main-footer bg-black"> <div class="container"> <div class="find-achiever" id="find-achiever-list"> <div class="form-group"> <input id="find-achiever-input" class="search js-focus" placeholder="Search for an achiever"/> <i class="icon-icon_chevron-down"></i> </div> <ul class="find-achiever-list list m-b-0 list-unstyled"> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/hank-aaron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Hank Aaron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kareem-abdul-jabbar/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-albee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Edward Albee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tenley-albright-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tenley Albright, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julie-andrews/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Julie Andrews</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-angelou/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Angelou</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20171016065456/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-d-ballard-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert D. 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