“I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.” MindI CanCountryKidsSupportAchieveExample Author:Maria Sharapova
“As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.” CountryYoungProcessRolesSuccessfulEconomicAchieveExamplePossibilityFameEssentialsElementsRewardsGenderDedicatedGender Roles Author:Lydia Sigourney
“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.” KindRunningWantedRomancePerfectAchieveExampleFieldsTypeBandMountainAspectFolksWoodsForestsObsessedBoardsCanadaLakesCountrysideFolkloreFolk MusicElectronic MusicWoods And Forests Author:Ellie Goulding
“There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.” PeopleCrazyAchieveExampleSoloCrossingsBeing CrazyCrazy Things Author:Orlan
“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.” KnowsWarWould BeTodayFormOrderTermAirAchieveExampleOceanBenefitsSurvivalBasesSuicideEnvironmentalNuclearPollutionShort TermNuclear War Book:Path To Tranquility Source: Path To Tranquility
“Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.” PeopleWorldGivingShouldLittlesFightingEnjoyAcceptingDestinyStreetsAchieveExampleSucceedEnjoy LifeDefianceProactiveLife And Change Author:Haifaa al-Mansour
“This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is an ally having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror and a country which will set such a powerful example to others in the region.” WarCountryAblePowerfulStepsAchieveExampleMajorsDemocraticIraqTerrorObjectivesRegionsAlliesWar On TerrorSteps Forward Author:Tucker Carlson
“A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.” KindMayMoralAchieveNew YorkExampleVictoryMetsSeasonsAthleteHeroicGood ExamplesProfessional AthleteMoral Victory Author:David Brooks
“When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.” GivingKidsAchieveExampleCommitmentSticksFantasticGiving Back Author:Maria Sharapova
“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.” ThinkingBelieveStillsMotherBeliefAchieveExampleFlyingPlanesCrash Author:Joe Bastianich
“There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.” IfsTryingTwoDifferentShowsSpiritNightLevelsResultsAchieveExamplePerformancesConstantMusicalPatternsPerformingFixedPhasesBroadwayImprovisationSampleLoopsShuffleBroadway Shows Author:Thomas Bangalter
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.” FailingTeachingAchieveExampleModelsPerfectionImperfectionCompetence Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside the system, and that's really super-f - king hard, and I'm sure there's some geniuses out there who can achieve it.” NeedsBelieveHardTogetherAchieveExampleGeniusKingsGet TogetherJust Believe Author:M.I.A.
“One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.” IfsReasonMightWould BeSchoolJobsHouseGoalPayAcceptingAchieveExampleHigherStriveWorkersSchool Districts Author:Robert H. Frank
“I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.” HandsLeaderAchieveExampleHelpfulNeverthelessFuture LeadersHands On Experience Author:Kofi Annan