"I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment."
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"Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment."
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"Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment."
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"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."
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"Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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"If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do"
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"Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment."
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"The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence ."
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"While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster"
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"For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present."
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"How my achievements mock me!"
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"We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about."
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"The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment."
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"A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged."
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"If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams."
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"Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity."
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"I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment"
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