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“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.”

“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”

Way Feels Real Self Sometimes America Style Achievement Intellectual Built Concerned Criticism Appearance Ideology Concrete Sophisticated Superficial Bricks Academia Mortar Trivia

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.”

Heart Success Bears Achievement Built Finished Defeated Cathedrals

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.”

World Firsts Inspiration Culture Literature Teaching Century Months Holy Achievement Benefits Built Islam Believer Billions Prophet Muhammad God First Ramadan Prophet Muhammad

Author:George W. Bush

“Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.”

Men Inspirational Should Sky Achievement Built Flight Aviation

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.”

Careers Clear Discipline Achievement Built

Author:Max Schmeling

“No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.”

Achievement Built Foundation New Work

Author:Polykarp Kusch

“Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality, and at the first serious shock the whole structure will crumble, perhaps destroying him in its fall.”

Men Firsts Whole Fall Effort Destiny Serious Personality Essentials Achievement Built Structure Shock Sand Destroying

Author:Rodney Collin