One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“One common thing about great achievers is that, they keep asking useful questions every day. They ask questions like; “What do I… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause… — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
Just as Christ said: I am not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it, so Spiritism says: We have not… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural… — Dorothy Lamour Copy Share Image
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters,… — Paul Feyerabend 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
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
