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Achievement Quotes
"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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"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 first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed."
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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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"I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things."
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
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"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
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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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"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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"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."
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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
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"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
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"Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential."
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"People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter."
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."
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"Having collected enough information concerning your topic, you will be able to achieve your dream."
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"Every man has a need to be great at something."
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"For every success, there is a system."
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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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"Everything that humans have achieved until now, were once merely an imagination in someone's head."
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"Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically."
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"Chess, I never thought that I will beat somebody on chess. I just thought that I'm too stupid to play chess, but it looks like the best in the class of math I beat him. He has in math as a result 5, I have 3 - Strange? I don't think so!"
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"You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved."
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"There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success."
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"Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right."
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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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"Scars are the awards of success, not the medals."
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
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"There is no short cut to success, but there are guidelines to success!"
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"The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it."
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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
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"Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted."
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"Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time."
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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"Great men look greater than yesterday."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time."
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"Dreams create desired things."
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"Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm."
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"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."
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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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"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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"I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more."
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"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
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"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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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
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"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
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