Achieve Quotes - Page 40

• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

  John Ensign

  Arrogant, Prestige, Persons

  "Farewell to the Senate". www.congress.gov. May 2, 2011.

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Effort, Training

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Thinking, Impossible

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• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  Paloma Faith

  Goal, Might, Achieving Your Goals

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Feminism

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• I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

  Renee Fleming

  Song, Stories, World

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• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Virginia Foxx

  Believe, Attention, May

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• I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Communication, People

  Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sports, Want, Enough

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• To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

  Jean Genet

  Height, Taste, Harmony

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Success, Independence, Credit

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• I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Lakes, Perfect

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Business

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• Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

  Germaine Greer

  Way, Shame, Treats

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

  Daphne Guinness

  Perfect, Use, Body

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• I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, Reality, Thinking

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• He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Growth, Shapes, Doe

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 33-34, 1978.

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• This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Scientific Method, Principles

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• I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

  Hunter Hayes

  Dream, Cheer, Support

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• I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

  Hunter Hayes

  Dream, Cheer, Want

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• Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  Joseph Heller

  Success, Humorous, People

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• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  O. Henry

  Weather, Climate, May

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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