Famous Quotes & Sayings

Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term, ... It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Alex Lifeson

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

E. O. Wilson

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Confucius

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Dallas Willard

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Curtis Martin

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

Dinah Shore

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Dean Karnazes

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

Alfie Kohn

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

Andrew Sarris

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

Ambrose Bierce

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people

Wilt scoring 100, to me, that's the greatest thing ever done as far as an individual achievement in the game. I don't think you ever take anything away from that. But what Kobe did in the modern day era is unbelievable to me.

Walter Mondale

We were marginalized in the public eye as a presidential party. What Clinton did is an enormous accomplishment. I myself even wondered if we'd do it again.

Richard Jackson

We've done the double over them now, and that's no mean achievement.

Tommy Amaker

To get a road win is a significant achievement. Road wins are treasured in our league. The way our guards played, especially Daniel Horton and Dion Harris, was the difference. They played with a swagger.

Jack Valenti

To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,

Danny Devito

What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!

James Jones

He observed neighborhoods, people in neighborhoods, and he learned how they talk. I think that is the greatest achievement that he has done - he brought that to his plays, the language of people.

We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.

Lynda Resnick

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Alan Bleasdale

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Andrew Wiles

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Timothy Ferriss

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

Brad Sherman

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Bonnie Wright

I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young.

Barry Levinson

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

Edmund Hillary

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Eckhart Tolle

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Bob Woodward

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Edith Wharton

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

David Trimble

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.