Achievement Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

  Michael Eisner

  Meaningful, Thinking, Way

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• With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Special, Dawn

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• 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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• Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Skills, Personal History

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• The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Success, Men, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

  Dennis Bakke

  Exercise, People, Joy

  Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.148, PVG

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• It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

  Joe Biden

  Administration, Great Achievement

  "Obama Happily Hands Iraq and Afghanistan to Al-Qaeda to Discredit George W. Bush". www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Light, Solitude, Enemy

  "Leaves Of Morya's Garden". Book by Nicholas Roerich, Book II : Illumination, Ch. VII, 1925.

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• From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

  Max Schmeling

  Careers, Discipline, Clear

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• A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

  David Allen

  Real, Common Sense, World

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• The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Block, Ambition, Effort

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.

  C. W. Ceram

  Adventure, Past, Men

  "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".

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• I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Impossible, I've Learned, Great Achievement

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• Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

  Masato

  Design, Excellence, Standards

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• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Anger, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

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• I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Hard Work, Character

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• Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Dream

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• The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Brush Strokes, Masterpiece

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• You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

  Lyn St. James

  Success, Victory, Steps

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• Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Determined, Remember

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.96, GENERAL PRESS

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• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  Fredric Jameson

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Russia, Wind, United States

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• Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

  John Frusciante

  Years, Two, Knights

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• Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

  Pindar

  Success, Effort, Strive

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