Achievement Quotes
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'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
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The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
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All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.
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It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
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A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path!
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I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
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It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.
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It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.
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The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
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My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
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Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
