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“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

Way Purpose Artist Values Goal Creativity Habit Demand Achievement Expectations Resources Ultimate Manage Purity Mastery Continuity Validation Ultimate Goal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Expectation is the springboard of achievement.”

Achievement Expectations Springboards

Author:Ngaio Marsh

“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”

Men Seems Women Achievement Expectations Bounds Satisfaction Wheels Unreasonable Great Achievement Affiliation

Book:Never Say Goodbye: Essays

Source: Never Say Goodbye: Essays

“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.”

“Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.”

“William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Made Given Failing Pride Succeed Achievement Expectations Satisfaction Endeavour Humiliated

Author:Alain de Botton

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

Inspirational Motivational Teacher Achievement Expectations Educational Accomplishment Wrestling Framework Aim High Great Achievement High Expectations Inspirational Achievement Great Accomplishment Motivational Achievement Personal Achievement Individual Achievement

Author:Charles Kettering

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

Life Mind Believe Success Achievement Capable Expectations Weakness Overcoming Plant Obstacles Seeds Believe In Yourself Anticipate

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.”

Talent Achievement Ambition Expectations My Family Characteristics Girl Interrupted

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

Ifs Thinking Action Positive Positive Thinking Achievement Expectations Disaster Secure Positively Demise Think Positive Think Positively Think Positive Be Positive Positive Thinking In Life

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.”

Levels Positive Products Achievement Expectations Positivity Aspiration Great Achievement Lifetime Achievement Personal Achievement Strive For Success

Book:Jack Nicklaus: My Story

Source: Jack Nicklaus: My Story