Achievement Quotes - Page 29

• Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Book, Important, Interviews

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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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• Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Stupid, Universal

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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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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Tasks

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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

  Lyn St. James

  Success, Victory, Steps

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

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Brush Strokes, Masterpiece

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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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• 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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• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]

  Hermann Weyl

  Years, Greek, Experience

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• Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Leadership, Struggle, Pathways

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Determined, Reason

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

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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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• Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Men, Losing Control, Becoming

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• Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

  Vijender Singh

  Way, Timeless, Celebrate

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• As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.

  Peter Karmanos, Jr.

  Player, Rewards, Succeed

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• Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

  Robert Grudin

  Freedom, Creativity, Character

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  Mac Anderson

  Motivation, People, Sticks

  Mac Anderson (2015). “You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  War, Europe, Liberty

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• Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

  Anne Bancroft

  School, College, High School

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