Achievement Quotes
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It's going to tell us important things about who we are and what we are -- medically, socially, and so forth. It's a pretty stunning achievement.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise - and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'
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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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I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.
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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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The true achievement of Augustus is that he saved the world from disintegration. Without him Rome must have lost her conquests one by one, and seen them relapse into barbarism or degenerate into petty satrapies. The wild peoples of the East and North would have ante-dated their invasions by centuries.
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The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
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I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
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People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.
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There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.
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Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team
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We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.
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Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.
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If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
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The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
