Achieve Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• To achieve more and better results, more resourcefulness is as important as more resources.

  Tony Alessandra

  Important, Results, Resources

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• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Communication, Emotional, Two

  Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”

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• T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More.

  Chuck Norris

  Together

  Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.81, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.

  Sabrina Bryan

  Soccer, Song, Writing

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• What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

  Ishmael Reed

  Kings, Mean, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

  Fernando Perez

  Dream, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

  Wendy Williams

  Team, Blessed, Editing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

  Walter Cunningham

  Acceptance, Rejection, Groups

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• There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.

  Yip Man

  Differences, Accomplishment, Firsts

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• My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.

  Erin Heatherton

  Yoga, Exercise, Relaxation

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• Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

  Mario Draghi

  Growth, Way, Prosperity

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• You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.

  Ralph Marston

  Light, Empowering, Vision

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• When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.

  Sharon Stone

  Dream, Thinking, Opposites

  "Sharon Stone Answers Your Questions". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. March 20, 2006.

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• The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Paul Davies (2006). “God and the New Physics”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Socialism, Form

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• Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.

  Sara Henderson

  Dream, Giving, Capable

  Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.9, Pan

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• Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Exercise, Order, Liberty

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• How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

  John McCain

  Exercise, Order, Enemy

  "Cohen: U.S. casualties likely in NATO campaign". www.cnn.com. April 15, 1999.

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• General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

  Viola Spolin

  Reality, Giving, Actors

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• If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

  Paul Strand

  People, Vision, World

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• Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Kind, Where You Are

  Brian Tracy (2011). “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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