"A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving."
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"I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale."
"Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?"
"Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything."
"Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving."
"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens."
"Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy."
"Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music."
"If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine."
"To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit."
"The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
"That which achieves its effect by accident is not art."
"You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit."
"Anything worth achieving in life has a dip"
"Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence."
"If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it"
"What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
"Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve."
"He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."
"Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace."