Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 128
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
Lewis Mumford
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
Ray Kroc
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
Wallace Stevens
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
Jay McInerney
Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.
Samuel Goldwyn
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
Vanna Bonta
You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.
Paul Heyman
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
Christine Lagarde
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
Robert Payne
And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.
Tom Lehrer
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments ,
you end up with an imbalance in your life.
Alexander McCall Smith
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This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.
