“As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.” AgeYoungGirlFeltAchieveGayMessagesObviousI RealizedNineLimitationCompounds Author:Chely Wright
“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.” ThinkingYearsMayStillsIdeasSeemsWould BeAgeAbleValuesEffortSituationStudyAchievePeriodsAchievementResearchScientistAddCurrentsGapsVacationProvidingNew IdeasMathematicianImprobableHaving HopeDeluded Author:John Forbes Nash
“Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]” LoveMomentsAgeDiesAchieveGrantsToil Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.” WorldLooksProblemAgeActionAchieveYouthHarmonyLuckBusyCosmicOutlines Author:Freya Stark
“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.” WellsAgeYoungParentAchieveHugeMarkPressureRaisedUniversityKeep GoingMy SisterEmphasisYoung AgeAttorney Author:David Schwimmer
“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.” WorldWayBelieveAgeTogetherSpiritualFormHumanityOrderCultureSpiritualityI BelieveUnderstandingResponsibilityMoralAchieveGrewEssentialsConnectionsOriginalsVariousDeeperGenuineSubstanceWorking TogetherMutualNew AgeRenewalKinshipSense Of ResponsibilityDeeper Understanding Author:Vaclav Havel
“I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.” IfsThinkingMenKindRealSometimesHardAgeYoungFatherFeltGoalNaturalMy OwnAchieveDisciplineEthicsCompetitionPersonal LifeWork EthicYoung AgeWill PowerKnackReal WorkAchieving Goals Author:Ryan Reynolds
“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.” WantAgeMiddleAchieveDangerousReturnElementsIslamRadicalPurityIslamicMiddle Ages Author:Brent Scowcroft
“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.” MenMightAgeFormCommunityMoralDarknessAchieveMoralityMen And WomenTasksCrucialConstructionRecognizingGood WillCivilityMaintenanceTurning PointsBarbarismContinuationMoral Life Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.” WantArtAgeActorsStuffCuttingAchieveSimplicityUselessGet BetterUseless Stuff Author:James Purefoy
“You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.” ThinkingShouldBelieveEndsPlayUseAgeHoursAchieveValuableTechniqueScalesFasterValuable Time Author:Robert Schumann
“I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.” IfsThinkingGivingMomentsHappensAgeImaginationToo MuchAchieveEffectsPersonalityLifetimeThat MomentImpossibilityMatchingOnce In A Lifetime Book:Conversations with Joseph Heller Source: Conversations with Joseph Heller
“I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.” FirstsPersonsAgeFormYoungDifficultComedyFansAchieveUnderstoodComicTonePopeYoung AgeFirst PersonImmediacy Author:Kevin Keck
“I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the easiest task. Learning to deal with the nerves and feeling the pressure of representing my country, all while wanting to achieve my own dreams, was a big obstacle to plow through.” CountryFeelingsDreamBigsAgeYoungMy OwnDealsAchieveTasksPressureAthleteObstaclesNervesElitesDay To DayYoung AgeRepresentingElite Athletes Author:Tara Lipinski
“I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.” IfsTryingMeanAgeRememberYoungGirlActingAchieveMomMy MomDrivenJealousRemember WhenYoung Age Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.” FeelsHas BeensRealDoneFactsFeelingsKidsAgeCausesProcessGoalHurtPartyBehindsMiddleAchieveBuildingHigherCostBiggerRaisedRateSpendingIncomeInequalityFallenRisingBuyingComing Of AgeHurt FeelingsMansionsStaging Author:Robert H. Frank
“It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.” AgeFatherAchieveEmptyFaithfulHardship Author:David A. R. White