"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers."
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"The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?"
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"We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter."
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"Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'."
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"Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity."
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"The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail."
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"Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns."
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"It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption."
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"There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige"
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"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune."
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"Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now."
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"The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed."
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"Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement"
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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved."
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"The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it."
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"Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday."
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"All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!"
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"I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you."
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"Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them."
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"You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want"
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