Greatest Achievement Quotes - Page 3

• My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

  Kim Smith

  People, Achievement, Who Cares

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• Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

  Mark Foley

  Government, Elderly, People

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• To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

  Common

  Artist, Names, Achievement

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• My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

  Etgar Keret

  Hurt, Father, War

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

  Michael K. Williams

  Achievement, Alive, Way

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Cells, Discovery

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

  Fred Hoyle

  Stars, Achievement, Century

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• Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Atheist, Thinking, Race

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• New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

  Edward Robb Ellis

  New York, Men, Achievement

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• Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Men, Personality

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.191, Routledge

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• To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Achievement, Earth, Praying

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• I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Cycle Of Life, Worry, Achievement

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• The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

  John Lydon

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Disease

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• [On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

  Camille Paglia

  America, Achievement, Hollywood

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• For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Numbers, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998".

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• All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Artist, Color, Achievement

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

  Neil Simon

  Women, Achievement, Body

  Neil Simon (1971). “The gingerbread lady: a new play”, Samuel French, Inc.

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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, Achievement

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• The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

  Michael Foley

  Flower, Self, Imagination

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• ...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

  John G. Kemeny

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Horse, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Science, Achievement

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  Pearl Bailey

  Achievement, Youth, Young

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Achievement, Mind, Individual

  Charles Sanders Peirce (2009). “The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series”

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