Achievement Quotes - Page 30

I've learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. That if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. I mean, really wanting it. Not a preference, and not, "Gee, I hope this." I mean really wanting it. It is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Clarity breeds mastery.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

Life is short. Be of use.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.