Quotes About Achievement

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Michelangelo had said that the successful completion of a great mosaic must rest upon the infinite design in the placement of a single tile.

Education has long been viewed in American society as "the great equalizer." But in practice, American schools are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic status, which defeats the equality goal. Research dating back five decades shows one of the most powerful ways to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students is giving them the opportunity to attend high-quality schools that educate rich and poor students under a single roof.135

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here; and he will not be judged by the position he holds so much as by the way he plays the game and does his job, however humble it may be....

He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.

And in the deepest recesses of his being, Dorrigo Evans understood that all his life had been a journeying to this point when he had for a moment flown into the sun and would now be journeying away from it forever after.

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

In fact, Herman never resolves satisfactorily why this achievement should have happened in the particular society of Scotland, so small and backward. The nearest he comes is to argue that, after union with England in 1707, Scottish intellectuals had to cope with the challenge, today common, of "deal[ing] with a dominant culture that one admired but that threatened to overwhelm one's own heritage and oneself with it.

Nor were there many nation-builders like him in his day: Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Simón Bolívar. His achievement may have been the more demanding because none of the others had to create a country out of a crazy quilt.

You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered 'promising.' I think it is about the time they turn forty.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

my boss was saying intellectual investment is like compound interest: the more you do, the more you learn how to do, so the more you can do, etc. I do not know what compound interest rate to assign, but it must be well over 6%—one extra hour per day over a lifetime will much more than double the total output. The steady application of a bit more effort has a great total accumulation.

The highest achievement results from mastering one's senses. Wisdom comes when we are no longer interested in worldly things.

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There's nothing wrong with civilization. We're just no there yet.

The reconstruction of an almost entirely new army on the ruins of the collapse in 1941, one capable of holding its own against the attacker, ranks as the most remarkable achievement

T]he name that matters is the name you make for yourself in a life of struggle and success!

Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough. But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death.

imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.