Francis Bacon Quotes

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

Francis Bacon

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • American
  • Politics
  • Accomplishment

• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Author
  • Athlete
  • Accomplishment

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Great
  • Vision

• What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Kids
  • Competition
  • Achievement

• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Work
  • Accomplishment

• That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Accomplishment

• I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Brother
  • Accomplishment

• To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Accomplishment

• There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Accomplishment

• What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't do and books can't do. You feel like you've personally accomplished something. You feel you get better at something.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Feeling
  • Interesting
  • Accomplishment

• You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Experience

• In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Up
  • Live
  • Success

• The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Christ

• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Men
  • Different
  • Kind

• You can't change when you're defensive.

  

  George Kohlrieser
  • Change
  • Defensive

• I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Accomplishment
  • Posterity
  • Requiring