Achievement Quotes - Page 36

• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people as if nothing matters. They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Let It Go

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Mind

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Running, Self Confidence

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• It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

  Adam Haslett

  Depression, Thinking, Negative

  Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

  Natalie Angier

  Beautiful, Cells, Giving

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Government, Independence, Able

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• The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

  Billie Jean King

  Attitude, Numbers, Relaxation

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 05, 2010

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• To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

  Kevin Spacey

  Caring, Giving, Body

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

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

  Barbara Walters

  Boston, Kind, Accents

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

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Life Is, Reason

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

  Katrina Kaif

  Language, Speak, Hindi

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• It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

  Dick Vitale

  Years, Personality, Television

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• My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

  Shahrukh Khan

  People, I Can, Ads

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• If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Communicate, Ifs, Values

  Mika Brzezinski (2012). “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth”, p.186, Weinstein Books

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• Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Sports, Home, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Machines, Favors, Way

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Purpose, Burning

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.48, Penguin

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• Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

  Edith Wharton

  Way, Ruins, Wells

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4461, Delphi Classics

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• Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

  William Watson Purkey

  School, Attendance, Becoming

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• I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

  George Benson

  Congratulations, Years, Awards

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