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Achievement Quotes
"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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"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
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"It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed."
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"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
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"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
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"Become great through the currency of time."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."
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"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
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"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."
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"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."
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"I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it."
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"The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement."
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"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
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"People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO."
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"You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record."
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"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
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"All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is."
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"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."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."
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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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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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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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"When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire."
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"No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night."
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"Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more - it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it."
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"It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note."
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"Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day."
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"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
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"There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you developed endurance, perseverance and will-to-win as a core part of your character."
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"Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it."
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"Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound."
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"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."
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"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."
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"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."
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"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
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"Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve."
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"A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to."
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"Take one step towards excellence, and success will take ten towards you. Take ten steps towards excellence, and success will take a hundred towards you. Take a hundred steps towards excellence, and success will take a thousand towards you."
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"Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success."
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