Achievement Quotes - Page 32

• In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Past, Fewer

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• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Hands, Rude

  Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

  Herbert York

  Science, Sound, Nuclear

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

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Boss, Research

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• There is no short cut to a place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Cutting, Short Cuts

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Effectiveness, Systematic

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

  Will Durant

  Doe, Pale, Mankind

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mother, Book, Son

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Done, Remains

  'Human Life' (1819) l. 49.

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• To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Essentials, Able, Difficult

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.160, Routledge

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• If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

  John Eliot

  Success, Want, Limits

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.11, Diversion Books

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• Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Overachiever

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• High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

  John Eliot

  Littles, Wells, Performances

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.12, Diversion Books

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• It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

  David McCullough

  Phenomenal

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set: 1776, The Johnstown Flood, Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, The Course of Human Events”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Nature, Humanity

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• The value of actions lies in their timing.

  Laozi

  Lying, Action, Timing

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• I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Recognition, Adages, Believer

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• Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

  Seth Godin

  Impact, Strategy, Our Future

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• Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Father, Fall

  William Penn (1830). “The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc”, p.6

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• The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Individual Effort, Might, Done

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• Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

  Margot Asquith

  Asking, Youth, Enough

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• The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Feelings, Who We Are

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Ambition, Way, Imagine

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• A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dream, Simple, Night

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