William James Quotes
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
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What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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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.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
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For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
