Quotes about Achievements

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implan to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives. We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity. The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements. So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy. We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very different. He would see that, like other organisms, we have a narrow sphere within which we are very good, but that sphere is very limited. And that, in fact, the very achievements we can have within that sphere are related to lack of achievements in other spheres. There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination. I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts. Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee's. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door. Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other. I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty. The mark of the point of the inventor Samuel Morse is comparable to the contribution of Nikolai Lobachevsky to geometry. (Anatoly Yurkin) Seeing a goal can be an obstacle to achieving it. (Anatoly Yurkin) A variety of failures promises a multiplicity of achievements. (Anatoly Yurkin) Alienation is a ritual and / or other ceremony to achieve a state of being. (Anatoly Yurkin) (Anatoly Yurkin) Alienation is not something within existence or between existence and being, but the very attainability of the middle as such. (Anatoly Yurkin) Freedom is achieved through alienation. (Anatoly Yurkin) The success of the thinker and the owner is achievable after the initial alienation. (Anatoly Yurkin) The evangelists of digital prosperity will be the ambassadors of alienation. (Anatoly Yurkin) Success will be achieved by those who are hungry for repeatability. Used tea bag will help to cook a Cup of coffee, but no mistakes will not help this success. Mistakes are necessary to achieve this or that. Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers. It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all. On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements... Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples. Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.