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"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
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"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."
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Personal Development
"It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal."
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Personal Development
"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."
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Personal Development
"With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals."
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Personal Development
"In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results."
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Personal Development
"The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it."
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Personal Development
"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."
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Personal Development
"Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time."
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Personal Development
"Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset."
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Personal Development
"There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement
"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
Change
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family
"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
Achievement
"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
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"Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so."
Boys
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
Family
"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
Achievement
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
Cultural
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