Achievement Quotes - Page 20

What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about the achievements of Western civilization - everywhere nurtured the catechism of established opinion.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

The house praises the carpenter.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

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.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.