Accomplishment Quotes - Page 32

• I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Real, Finishing, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Mark Wahlberg from Mar 30, 2015

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• There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.

  Teresa Mummert

  Dream, Hate, Taken

  FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Feb 13, 2012

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• The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

  Donald A. Norman

  Jobs, Real, Issues

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• When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

  Claire Shipman

  Humble, Shy, Ability

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• The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.

  Eric Metaxas

  Children, Tree, Giants

  Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).

  John Caples

  World, Advertising, Forget

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• Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Perseverance, Talent, Social

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14

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• Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

  Martial

  Age, Praying, Mortality

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• Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Pain, Lying, Passion

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.42

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• There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

  William Shenstone

  Order, People, Degrees

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.41

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• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Fall, Taken

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

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• Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Mind, Lovely

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• The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

  Hannah More

  Education, Character, Race

  Hannah More (1810). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals”, p.14

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• I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

  Sara Coleridge

  Thinking, Leisure, Occupation

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.128

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• the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.

  Karen Horney

  Strong, Struggle, Mean

  Karen Horney (2013). “Self-Analysis”, p.303, Routledge

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• Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Winning, Games

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• Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

  Emily Yoffe

  Addresses, Voters, Argument

  "Slate: The Sarah Palin Story". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 4, 2008.

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• It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

  Albert Ellis

  Nice, Mind, Excellence

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• And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

  Marie Corelli

  Pain, Heart, Desire

  Marie Corelli (1895). “The Soul of Lilith”, p.324, Library of Alexandria

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• Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

  Janet Frame

  Death, May, Language

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Thinking, Wish

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• New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, New York, Past

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Hard Work, Wind

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• The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.

  James Longstreet

  Struggle, Passion, Sleep

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• Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Expectations, Wish, Different

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