Achievements Quotes
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
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New York is very intense. Every time I go back to New York, I'm starting from scratch. You could have all these achievements - records, a tour - and then you get home and get back to the basics. It whips you into shape.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
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The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.
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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
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Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
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Despite some notable achievements, progress is off track across the continent.
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
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I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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To be honest I don’t want to always be referred to as the black swimmer from Britain. I want to be known for my achievements. But perhaps it is necessary if it helps inspire another child to get in the pool, aged eight, and to just give it a go.
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It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.
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The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.
