Accomplished Quotes - Page 34

• The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

  Martin Buber

  Fusion, Becoming, Concentration

  "I and Thou". Book by Martin Buber, 1923.

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• Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Years, Practice, Class

  "Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles and on stage" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2008.

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• The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.

  John Wooden

  Mean, Caring, People

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

  John Waters

  Nice, Tomorrow, Enjoy

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

  Frank Miller

  Thinking, Cities, America

  "Writers, Artists Describe State of the Union". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 24, 2007.

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• Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, Heart, People

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• Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Wrath, Doubt, Needs

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• Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

  Samuel Smiles

  May, Glory, Burden

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Cowboy, Mind, Generations

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.353, Haymarket Books

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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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• I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Feelings, Trying

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• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Children, Looks

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

  Bill Maher

  Soup Kitchens, Order, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passion, Form, Has Beens

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• I am not an accomplished lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lawyer

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

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• The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fashion, Selfish, Independent

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• Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
  ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Florida, Rights, Expression

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• Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Progress, Taxation

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924”

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• The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  God, Art, Imagination

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• ... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Fall, Despair

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• Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

  James Boswell

  Wise, Teacher, Strong

  James Boswell (1827). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...”, p.58

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