It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
We all want our children to be the best they can be; and one of the blessings of having an autistic child… — Didi Conn Copy Share Image
I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits.… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Twinkle's role has made me so popular that wherever I go, people instantly call me Twinkle. I believe, for an actor, this… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Always Try To Look At All Things In A Positive Way. All The Criticism, Take As A Motivation To Work Harder To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto. — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Once you start something don't stop until you complete it. Don't let excuses, problems, hard work or anything stop you from completing… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image