Quotes about achievement
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Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal. Henry Petroski
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With data showing six years of improved student achievement, we know that California schools are headed in the right direction, ... We now need to maintain the focus on high standards to keep up the momentum for improved student achievement at all schools. Jack O'Connell
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We will make sure he gets his Lifetime Achievement Award, no matter how hard it is to track him down.
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We will make our system of checks more robust to ensure achievement of the target truly reflects the experience of patients across the country.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.
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Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead
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Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. Ahmed Zewail
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To be able to finish your career either first or second in the world would be a pretty remarkable achievement.
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This remarkable achievement overturns industry assumptions and has the potential to fundamentally change the way high performance semiconductors are designed, manufactured and deployed.
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To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts. Alastair Reynolds
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. Elbert Hubbard
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This year we are celebrating our fifth anniversary and are proud to add this award to our list of achievements. It is always an honor to be recognized in this way. But, we are so consistently and wisely informed by our clients, that we feel we share this honor with them.
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Those who prefer interacting with people over task achievement tend to be more careless about time management. Robert Moore
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids. Wendy Kopp
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We competed against a field of very strong contenders and in front of the entire industry for this award. This is an important achievement for us and provides further evidence that we have developed the most innovative approach to the data security available today.
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We are committed to being the dominant, global casual dining portfolio restaurant company. Our worldwide development strategy, strong operations performance and portfolio of powerful brands will enable us to grow earnings each year by 15 percent and pay a sustainable dividend to our shareholders, ... We are excited to share our strategic plan, which will support the achievement of our long-term vision, during today's investor conference.
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We have been chosen, ... by fate or providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Bill Bryson
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We have finalised the rescue operation. We have rescued the Kyoto protocol. It is a major achievement because we live with this for many years to come,
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We will either find a way, or make one.
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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to. David Ogilvy
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We are so proud of all the achievements of Marco this season despite the outcome in the finals.
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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. Brian Ferneyhough
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I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written. Christopher Lee
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While on the surface all may appear to be well in these schools, if we dig deeper we find that achievement could be better in some subjects, or for some groups of pupils, and that these schools are falling way behind in terms of providing the sort of education we find in our best schools.
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Winning Section II finals was a big accomplishment for us. We knew we should have won last year, but we came up on the short end. We had to live with it for a year. I guess, a year later -- good things come around if you wait.
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With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. Michael Owen
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To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians. Ricky Jay
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In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. Ludwig von Mises
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900's. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I possessed.