Quotes About Achievement

Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed they would perform as well as men, that they did.

Why don't more people set goals? In general, psychologists point to seven reasons: They have not yet accepted personal responsibility for their lives. Many

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Jeff just didn't much give a shit after that. He'd done all he could, achieved everything a man could ever hope to—materially, romantically, paternally—and still it came to nothing, still he was left alone and powerless, with empty hands and heart. Back to the beginning; yet why begin at all, if his best efforts would inevitably prove futil

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

a system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration—within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.

The second role of a mentor is encouragement. Mentors lead us to believe that we can achieve something that seemed improbable or impossible to us before we met them. They don't allow us to succumb to self-doubt for too long, or the notion that our dreams are too large for us. They stand by to remind us of the skills we already possess and what we can achieve if we continue to work hard.

Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more… If you love doing something, you'll be constantly drawn to get better at it.

The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.

We have found that many of our students who were not successful before coming to Boston Arts Academy find their way to engaging with school through the arts, because school isn't just another thing that they hate and are bad at.

All students are unique individuals with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as individuals is the heart of raising achievement. As

El Elemento tiene dos características principales, y hay dos condiciones para estar en él. Las características son: capacidad y vocación. Las condiciones son: actitud y oportunidad. La secuencia es más o menos así: lo entiendo; me encanta; lo quiero; ¿dónde está?

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

But no matter how far he flew, he didn't get any closer to the sun.

What I hate most is the majority that rests in comfort upon its mediocre accomplishments.

If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

My definition of success is control.