Achieve Quotes - Page 12

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.

Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement...Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

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

The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.