Achievement Quotes - Page 36

• I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

  David Remnick

  Mistake, Thinking, Vanity

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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• Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Doe

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• God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

  Derek Prince

  Character, Eternity, Importance

  Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Ambition, Son

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• A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

  Gary Blair

  Goal, Add, Three

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• For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Thinking, Our World, Humanity

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk him up. The pyramids were designed and constructed without a whiff of a sniff of caffeine. Coffee was introduced to Europe only in 1615. The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realize that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable.

  Mark Forsyth

  Coffee, Europe, Pyramids

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.154, Icon Books Ltd

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• Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Disappointment, Unique, Opportunity

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

  Dallas Willard

  Life Is, Accomplish, Persons

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• Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.

  Robin Sharma

  Discipline, Produce, Performances

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 11, 2014

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• The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Imagination, Soul, Individual

  "Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success".

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• Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.

  Rihanna

  Lonely, New York, Feet

  "Rihanna on Chris Brown: 'I Needed That Wake-Up Call', www.usmagazine.com. October 26, 2010.

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• No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Long, Black History, Library

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• I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Science, Knowing, Chemistry

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

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• Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some people ask who they are and expect their achievements to tell them. But the things we accomplish always leave a core of character unrevealed. Some people ask who they are and expect visions of their ideal self to tell them. But our visions can only tell us what we want to be, not what we are

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Character, Self, Flames

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• Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

  Alan Judd

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

  Saul Perlmutter

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

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• Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

  Claudia Emerson

  Wise, Distance, Poet

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• The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road.

  Mark Noll

  Beautiful, Communication, Civilization

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• Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

  Sangharakshita

  Expression, Poverty, Abundance

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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