Achievement Quotes - Page 22

• Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

  Peter Thiel

  Photography, Optimistic, Player

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

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• Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.

  Sheldon Richman

  Keys, Incomplete Knowledge, Careers

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• Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Art, Character

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Great Inventions, Genius

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• The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Passion, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stars, Passion, Heart

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• 'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Mean, Play Hard

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• Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Thinking, Hatred

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• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Recovery, Justice

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• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  Edward T. Hall

  Time, Wall, People

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• I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them! We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one... When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms.

  Steven Moffat

  Struggle, Dark, Men

  "Coupling". www.imdb.com. 2000-2004.

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• He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Heart, Bears

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

  Eustace Budgell

  Success, Victory, Use

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• Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Finals, Splendid, Score

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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• To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

  John Donne

  Success, Media, Degrees

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

  David Beckham

  Football, Children, Husband

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• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Men, People

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 324, 1977.

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• Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Degrees, Genius, Outstanding

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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