And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards… — Dor Bahadur Bista Copy Share Image
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower… — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him.… — Snorri Sturluson Copy Share Image
Getting lab results to child clinicians faster compliments our Action Plan for Health Care by helping more patients get the right care,… — Deb Matthews Copy Share Image
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“When you let go of expectations and make room for exploration, real achievement can happen. You live in flow and everything in… — Tina Leigh Copy Share Image
When you work with people, you buy into it, you work together and you pull together. It doesn't matter what your challenge… — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because that feels… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself… — Yuna Kim Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Success is not about having a lot but about making the most of what you have. But success alone however will not… — Tony Meloto Copy Share Image
