“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.” WorldWantShouldYearsSaidWarCountryTurnsPresidentDemocracyAchieveStyleCapacityWesternSecureAspirationRealisticAfghanistanPresident ObamaPoorest Author:David Petraeus
“Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.” CareAchieveStyleDevelopmentDegreesTake CareInstructionNotable Author:Walter J. Phillips
“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.” EasyDifficultLinesPerfectMillionsAchieveStyleDesignApproachSimplicityDifficult Things Author:Keith Michael
“Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.” PeopleIfsWorldAchieveStyleHugeMiseryCampaignsVideoResistanceAround The WorldAccomplishedNonviolencePalestinianPalestineMilitancy Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth” StatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyAchieveStyleWesternNotionMythRealisticAfghanistan Author:Barbara Boxer
“Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?” DoeHelpingNationsGoalAchieveStyleReturnMoonResourcesProgramDollarsBillionsHelping OthersMake SenseTrailsApollo Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation.” PeopleFirstsTwoDifferentWantedFilmEnvironmentAchieveStyleTablesMultipleAnimationDifferent StylesKung FuPandasNew EnvironmentKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I personally respect Bobby. He does really well on stage. Although I don't think his raps are exceptional or that he has a wide spectrum, his ability to dominate the stage is good, and he has a cool style of hip-hop that rappers aren't able to achieve.” ThinkingWellsDoeAbleAbilityAchieveStageStyleHip HopRapWideHipsHopsRapperExceptionalSpectrum Author:Kim Nam-joon
“Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.” PeopleGoalDemocracyEnvironmentAchieveWorstStyleProsperityCommunismEnterpriseSovietDictatorship Author:James Stone