“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.” PeopleWellsHas BeensYoungMotivationSuccessfulAchieveStudentsAmountInvestmentProgrammesNasaStimulation Author:Neil Armstrong
“No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.” WorldWellsChildhoodAchieveThis WorldAmountDrivenHappy Childhood Author:Sue Grafton
“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.” WorldTwoFactsHalfAirFeetAchieveAmountEssenceTrainAverageSpeedShipsLiftsPlanesExpensiveEnginesLoadCommodityTransportAeroplanesHigh SpeedCargo Author:J. R. D. Tata
“Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.” ThinkingHardBigsResultsAchieveHard WorkAmountDetermineDeterminedPadsLaunching Author:Gary W. Keller
“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.” WholeAchieveReturnAmountCostManagementRateInvestingAverageActiveManagersFundExpensesGrossPercentagesDisadvantagesTransactionsIndex FundsActive Management Author:Burton Malkiel
“I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.” ThinkingCertainEnvironmentAchieveIndustryAmountFemalePerfectionConstantStriveRelatedOur SocietySkinnyWork Related Author:Mila Kunis
“To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.” MeanAchieveAmountExcellenceAspire Author:John Avery
“Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” MindEnoughDesireStrongResultsFireAchieveAmountWeakHeatStrong EnoughSuperhumanSmall AmountsStrong DesireDesire To AchieveDesire For PowerSuperhuman Powers Author:Napoleon Hill
“Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.” StoriesActionUsedGivenGraceAchieveAdviceEffectsAmountNotionDefinitionsSentencesShort StoryMaximsChekhovAspiring WritersCompression Author:Catherine Brady
“When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.” CertainAchieveAmountProveWorthyProfessionI Realized Author:Naomie Harris
“Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.” ThinkingWayChildrenSometimesStoriesSeemsSpiritualParentGoalSimpleMoralTeachAchieveObjectsAmountLessonsBest WayGrimLecturing Author:Mike Berenstain
“When I think about work-life balance, I don't imagine it as a perfect day where I got to spend the exact right amount of time having an impact at work and snuggling with my kids at home. I never achieve that. But over the course of a month, or a quarter, or a year, I try to make time for the people and experiences I value.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsHomeKidsValuesCoursesPerfectImagineAchieveMonthsAmountBalanceImpactQuartersWork Life BalanceMaking TimeLife BalancePerfect DaysSnuggling Author:Jane Park