Accomplished Quotes - Page 28

• Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

  Israel Nathan Herstein

  Jobs, Discovery, Done

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• Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

  David Dinkins

  Thinking, Judging, Administration

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• Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Done, Said

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• Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Born, Modest

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.126, Harper Collins

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• Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

  Shiri Appleby

  Feel Better, Failing, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Machines, Facts, Arithmetic

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Way, Born

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• All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

  Erich Fromm

  Growth, Desire, Purpose

  Erich Fromm (1941). “Escape from Freedom”, Henry Holt & Company

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Coquette, Coquetry

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• For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Said, Pleasant

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

  Edvard Munch

  Numbers, House, Green

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• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Special, Dying

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• Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

  Saint Augustine

  Real, Accomplishment, Grace

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• The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Feelings, Satisfaction

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• You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Dream, Thinking, Alternatives

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.

  Sathya Sai Baba

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• If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

  Vaclav Havel

  Accomplishment, Needs, Driven

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• For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Past, Challenges, Mind

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• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

  David Brooks

  Practice, Keys, Crafts

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• I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.

  Wolf Kahn

  People, Want, Painting

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• The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

  Max Planck

  Hard Work, Science, Journey

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• Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Art, Attitude, Effort

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• The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Crush, Depressing, Educational

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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• If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Sadness, Childhood

  Astrid Lindgren's acceptance speech for The Right Livelihood Award, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1994.

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• Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, People, Decision

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