Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
~By Henry Ford ~
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
~By Brian May ~
He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
~By Kenny Cunningham ~
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
~By Marc Ribot ~
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
~By Willard Libby ~
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
~By James E. Rogers ~
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
~By Alan Shepard ~
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
~By George Takei ~
Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
~By John Hope ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
~By Giacomo Puccini ~
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
~By Herbert Croly ~
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
~By Kenneth Clark ~
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~By John Wooden ~
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
~By Simon Cowell ~
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
~By Bo Bennett ~
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
~By Charles Kettering ~
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.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
~By Max Beckmann ~
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.
~By Marc Garneau ~
The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
~By John Hume ~
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.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
~By Nido Qubein ~
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
~By Horace ~
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
~By Richard Wagner ~
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
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.
~By John Drinkwater ~
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
~By Steve Prefontaine ~
Your greatest achievement is to love me.
~By Prince Charles ~
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~By Martin Bashir ~
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
~By Marilyn Horne ~
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
~By Willa Cather ~
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~By Frederic Chopin ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
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.
~By Alice Koller ~
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
~By Rick Rubin ~
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
~By Oscar Hammerstein II ~
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~By Golda Meir ~
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~By Helen Keller ~
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
~By Richard Thompson ~
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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.
~By James S. Coleman ~
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
~By Max Euwe ~
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
~By Kim Smith ~
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
~By Willard Libby ~
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
~By Marvin Bower ~
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
~By Kurt Lewin ~
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
~By George Lucas ~
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
~By Carl Rogers ~
All great achievements require time.
~By Maya Angelou ~
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
~By Vash Young ~
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
~By Alicia Machado ~
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
~By James H. Breasted ~
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