Achieve Quotes - Page 30

• Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Self, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Caring, Goal, Focus

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• The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Order, Trying

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level.

  Brendan Daly

  Team, Pride, Winning

  Source: content.time.com

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• You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

  Andrew Wyatt

  Want, Effects

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

  Jimenez Lai

  World, Absurd, Settings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, America, Optimism

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

  Ramez Naam

  Teaching, Impact, Roi

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

  Graham T. Allison

  Ambition, Two, Tragedy

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, Energy, Needs

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

  Burt Rutan

  Volume, Spaceflight, Access

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician - and we're certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business - it's been amazing.

  Ivanka Trump

  Daughter, Watches, Proud

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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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• Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Summer, Mean, Promise

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• People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.

  Lynda Field

  Passion, Persistence, People

  Lynda Field (2011). “Weekend Life Coach: How to get the life you want in 48 hours”, p.43, Random House

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• Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility - that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve - slowly, no doubt, but certainly - God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Peace, Real, Responsibility

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• When you understand that what most people really, really want is simply to feel good about themselves, and when you realize that with just a few well-chosen words you can help virtually anyone on the planet instantly achieve this, you begin to realize just how simple life is, how powerful you are, and that love is the key.

  Mike Dooley

  Powerful, Simple, Love Is

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• We can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.

  John Assaraf

  Communication, Skills, Goal

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

  Novak Djokovic

  Motivation, Successful, Challenges

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• I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Important, Judgment

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kids, Goal, Needs

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• [People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, People, Underestimate

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• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Working Conditions, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Growing up with my brothers has helped me a lot in training. I have learned a lot from them. The moves, their advice and all other stuff. I maybe the youngest, but my older brothers helped me a lot in order to achieve what they have achieved.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Brother, Growing Up, Moving

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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