“... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!” MenMayWholeGreaterDesignPossibilityKingsAchievementConceptsProphetSermonsIncomparableJoseph SmithOnward And Upward Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.” YearsMindChildrenLittlesStillsTwoAgeAbleThreeNumbersEffortPeriodsActivityAchievementCapableConceptsLaysAcquireUnconsciousExploringSurroundingsAbsorption Author:Maria Montessori
“I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.” WayShouldMindHumansStillsSelfMatterFeelingsHuman BeingsAchievementSmartConceptsMachinesIntelligentInnovationStructureMereConvincedRepresentationEvidentPropositionsSpatial Author:Kedar Joshi
“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.” TryingReasonActionSchoolMotivationEffectsBalanceAchievementHigh SchoolConceptsBuiltTestsPrejudiceAcceptedScoreStatisticsAcademicTestingAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmativeClassmatesPrincetonTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” MenLifeReasonPhilosophyPurposeMoralActivityAchievementConceptsEssenceAbsolutesProductiveHeroicObjectivism Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.” ThinkingSuccessGamesChanceEconomyAchieveMastersSucceedAchievementConceptsOddsCongratulationsAchieving SuccessAgainst All OddsAgainst The OddsPersonal AchievementOdds Against You Author:Robert Foster Bennett
“The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.” MindHumansMayTwoFallPoliticsDutyAchievementLateHighestConceptsLoyaltyToo LateHuman MindTwinsDoomedSave Yourself Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.” HandsScienceAchievementConceptsConnectionsAccountsRelationAimPrimariesMinimumComprehensionTotalityEmploying Author:Albert Einstein
“Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]” YearsSaidLastsFoundResultsGenerationsAchievementConceptsExperienceAimMathematicsMethodGreekAntiquityPrevious Generations Author:Hermann Weyl