With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis… — Eric A. Hanushek Copy Share Image
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and… — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“Become a Morale Booster Extraordinaire. Lift others up and celebrate their hard-earned successes. Win by achieving. Respect the achievements of others.” — Cathy Burnham Martin Copy Share Image
In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
What NATO troops are doing in Afghanistan is to train, assist and advise Afghans, but they are actually doing the fighting. They… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or… — Marion Meade Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half… — Tom Daley Copy Share Image
In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
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