Achievement Quote by William Least Heat-Moon Download Open image “Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.” — William Least Heat-Moon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achievement Lasts Memories Memory Men Success
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life.… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others. — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income. — David Harvey 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 democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
