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“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.”

Thinking Grows Brain Exercise Achievement Evolve Faculty Massage

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.”

Men Should Children Stills Ideas Done Used Mother Dies Energy Grows Growth Walks Teach Growing Up Produce He Man Baby Achievement Motherhood Constructive Accumulation Concealed

Author:Maria Montessori

“Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.”

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition

“Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.”

Humans Dream Grows Environment Degrees Achievement Ambition Size Missions Our Dreams Carp

Book:Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Source: Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

“The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.”

Ifs Has Beens Hands Grows Perfect Results Effort Path Keys Easier Skills Achievement Instruments Series Finals Instance Disappointed Fence Evoke Greatest Success

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.”

People Want Reason Use Order Grows Process Achievement Uncomfortable Tolerate Discomfort

Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”

“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.”

Way Looks Earth Jesus Grows Rights Sacrifice Achievement Praise Blessed Filled Hunger Hungry Righteousness Followers Thirst Thirsty Renounce Hunger And Thirst

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.”

“My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.”

Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)

“A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.”

Giving Real Opportunity Grows Leadership Freedom Ability Levels Leader Achievement Highest

Author:Buck Rodgers

“You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.”

Giving Children Grows Enjoy Growing Up Environment Safe Achievement Importance Compare Enjoy Life Athletic Safe Environment

Author:Steffi Graf

“This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.”