Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 124
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
Ralph Ellison
Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.
Jay Conrad Levinson
As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.
Maria Konnikova
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Edward Dahlberg
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Alice Munro
The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.
Amy Poehler
It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.
Keith Michael
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
Goswami Kriyananda
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield
The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
Jude Bijou
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Tom Peters
Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Katherine Paterson
The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
Brooks Johnson
All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.
Thornton T. Munger
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The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
