Achieve Quotes - Page 14

• What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

  Tony Robbins

  Order, Want, Kind

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

  Sharon Stone

  Greatness, Levels, Matter

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• I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Thinking, Html

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• I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

  Arthur Scargill

  Idealism, Idealist

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?

  Nick Clegg

  Real, Giving, Growth

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• We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

  Jerry Brown

  Fashion, Real, Goal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Powerful, Kids, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.

  Richard Grossman

  Spiritual, Strong, Prayer

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it.

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Love Is

  Source: aalbc.com

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• One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Pay, Determine, Prepared

  "Vietnam: A Television History (Legacies)". TV Mini-series, openvault.wgbh.org. July 11, 1983.

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• Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

  Gerhard Richter

  Snapshots, States, Pure

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• How about we get rid of separate bathrooms for boys and girls? Gays and straights share the bathroom with zero issues. We need to put an end to the sexist pooping policies of yesterday. The only way to achieve gender equality is to start crapping in front of each other.

  Daniel Tosh

  Girl, Zero, Gay

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• Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Photography, Mean, Giving

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• The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

  Victor Burgin

  Political, Identity, Doe

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• The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Drama, Years

  Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

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• There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.

  Phil Stern

  Photography, Perfect, Challenges

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• When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

  Jack Welpott

  Trying, Cameras, Musician

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• I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

  Art Wolfe

  Animal, Hands, Trying

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• The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, Humanix Books

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• Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Believe, People

  "A Just Cause, Not a Just War" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

  Manning Marable

  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Love You, Making Love, Desire

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Believe, Technology, Suffering

  Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.

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