The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 12
The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.
John Lydon
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.
Joichi Ito
After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.
Shakira
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
Andy Grove
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!
To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
Kumi Naidoo
An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
John Locke
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Thomas Mann
The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.
Anthony de Mello
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
