Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ahmed Zewail

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.

To be able to finish your career either first or second in the world would be a pretty remarkable achievement.

Bing Gordon

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

To develop an investigational test to screen blood, tissue and organ donors, and to get this test in blood banks throughout the country, and then licensed this quickly is a remarkable achievement for public health and patient safety.

While the governor's proposed funding increase is truly appreciated, it still leaves us short of being able to fully maintain the services we provide to our students, let alone being able to expand opportunities for our students. It's discouraging to have to recommend cuts at a time when student achievement is increasing, but we must balance expenses with revenues.

Michael Owen

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.

Jack O'Connell

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.

We will make sure he gets his Lifetime Achievement Award, no matter how hard it is to track him down.

We will make our system of checks more robust to ensure achievement of the target truly reflects the experience of patients across the country.

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.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Robert Moore

Those who prefer interacting with people over task achievement tend to be more careless about time management.

Wendy Kopp

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.

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.

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.

Bill Bryson

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.

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,

Ashley Johnson

We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.

The opposition sought to exploit the achievements of the upheaval, so it brokered a deal in Paris in mid-April, which allowed the Lebanese-Syrian police regime to buy time.

Ben Crenshaw

There is nothing like it. You cannot imagine what it's like. It's a personal achievement and you feel like you've gotten through something very difficult.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

Alastair Reynolds

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

Elbert Hubbard

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.

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.

We are so proud of all the achievements of Marco this season despite the outcome in the finals.

Brian Ferneyhough

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.

Christopher Lee

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.

We will either find a way, or make one.

This remarkable achievement overturns industry assumptions and has the potential to fundamentally change the way high performance semiconductors are designed, manufactured and deployed.

There is no perfect or ideal size for a high school. Top-level student achievement can be seen in high schools of all sizes in the state.