“Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindMovingAchieveDecidedPushingTargetPush YourselfGreatest Success Author:Mike Michalowicz
“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.” PeopleWayMomentsHelpingProblemFoundEnergyDifficultGoalEffortPracticeAchieveDecidedAdversityObjectivesOddsProvenHelping PeopleObservingPsychiatristPersonal Goal Author:Ari Kiev
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.” InspirationalSelfInspirationMotivationalSuccessCertainAbilityAchieveAcceptanceConfidenceCostAchievementGainsLaborTasksDecidedOptimismPerseveranceSelf ConfidenceAccomplishedImmenseTiresomeTediumDistaste Author:Arthur Helps
“If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.” IfsWorldWould BeSufferingSportsAnimalAchieveTomorrowDecidedKillingEntertainment Author:Andrew Linzey
“We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.” PeopleIfsChanceLeaderDemocracyFailingAchieveWillingProveDecidedElectionAssumingLocalsAlternativesCandidatesProtestElsewhereProvokingBehalfInvolvementDemonstrationInsufficientSlimUpheaval Author:Anne Applebaum
“The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.” PeopleWayYearsChildrenEndsMotherLostNationsUnitedRolesAchieveSecurityDecidedIndependenceSouthWesternContributionResolutionSouth AfricaIgnoredUnited NationsCubaMournCubanBeing IgnoredAngolaNamibia Author:Alejandro Castro Espin