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“If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Looks Bigs Chance Records Groups Achieve Achievement Very Good Candidates Big Things Small Things Good Chance

Author:Edmund Hillary

“If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.”

Ifs Children Problem Minutes Couple Achievement Married Extraordinary Fifteen Problem Solving Married Couples Extraordinary Achievement

Author:William J Doherty

“Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.”

“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”

Ifs Pleasure Too Much Air Achievement Pollution Fresh Air Pleasures Of Life Air Pollution

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.”

Ifs Enough Goal Crazy Achievement Ambitious

Author:Laszlo Bock

“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”

Ifs Inspirational Done Bigs Seems Today Sports Havens Football College Achievement Self Improvement Improvement Yesterday Champion Coaching Motivational Sports Great Football

Author:Lou Holtz

“I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Country America Struggle Rights Achievement Appreciation Civil Rights Collectives Humane Covering

Author:Charles Kuralt

“One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.”

People Ifs Trying Real Problem Fighting Ability Successful Achievement Concerned Envy Accomplishment Loser Constructive Becoming Successful Jealousy And Envy Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Donald Trump

“In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.”

Ifs Men Age Culture Found Moral Support Mankind Morality Demand Achievement Arise Immorality Susceptibility

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

“I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a Single Currency or the absurd provisions of the Social Chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce, and national prosperity will benefit as a result.”

“If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.”

Ifs Life Is Names Goal Wealth Fame Achievement Within You Attainment Finding Peace Life Goal Peace Within

Author:Sivananda

“Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.”

Ifs Humans Country Culture Found Sin Levels Pride Civilization Achievement Bases Institutions West Western Educational Buried Western Civilization Educational Institutions

Author:Thomas Sowell

“... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Doe Dream Human Beings Hero Achievement Behave Decent Dishes Spurs Wild Dreams

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.”

Ifs Achievement Satisfying Impressive

Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.”

People Ifs Want Giving Feels Trying Sometimes My Own Achievement Comfortable Beats Give Me Satisfaction Occasions Pushing

Author:Ayrton Senna

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

Ifs Doe Two Reason Lasts Numbers Steps Limits Achievement Infinite Supreme Recognition Realising Excess

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Ifs World Way Strong Born Results Break Sacrifice Broken Achievement Great Things Selfishness Small Things Great Achievement Great Sacrifice

Author:Napoleon Hill

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

Ifs Knows Mind Believe Heart I Can Imagination Inspiring Achieve Positive Thinking My Heart Achievement Reflection Determination Graduation Softball Imagination And Dreams Over Confidence

Book:Straight from the Heart

Source: Straight from the Heart

“If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements.”

Ifs Want Done Achievement Belts

Author:Tyson Fury

“Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?”

People Ifs Want Giving Trying Hard Home Life Is Reading Hours Half Achievement Tired Entertainment Coming Home Life Is Hard Tired Of Working

Author:James Patterson

“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

“If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.”

Ifs Feels Special Proud Mountain Achievement Difficulty Favors Be Proud Proud Of You

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.”

Ifs World I Can Body Goal My Own Records Saws Minutes Achievement Capacity Competing Prove Myself Weightlifting

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.”

People Ifs Thinking States Enough Law Happened Students Succeed Achievement Standards Tough Tests Driven Ideology Gaps Old People Framework Achievement Gap

Author:Diane Ravitch

“We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.”

Ifs Thinking Want Values Numbers Demand Achievement Program Accounts Impact Complaining Consumers Streams Milestone

Author:Cary Sherman

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.”

Ifs Men Science Sea Achievement Crosses Noble Electricity Machinery Magnetism Traverse Galvanism

Book:Elements of Electro-metallurgy

Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy

“Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.”

Ifs Feelings Progress Influence Achievement Strive Realms Reaching Taoism Shed Soar Sage Mundane Lofty Great Achievement

Author:Zicheng Hong

“In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.”

Ifs Spirit Creation Achievement Perfection Harm Ghost Fulfillment Taoism Resent Deranged Incompleteness Resent You

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.”

Ifs Knows Made Hard Dies Break Achievement Inevitable Taoism Breaking Down

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.”

People Ifs Ideas Government Able Form Civilization Achievement Mass Democratic Complicated Forms Of Government

Author:Robert Hass

“In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.”

Ifs Thinking Way Would Be Levels Achieve Civilization Achievement Europe Unions Western Civilized Turkeys European Union Turkish Western Europe Uncivilized

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those who wanted to replace him. For those reasons, he will go down in history as among the world's most skillful politicians, even if his achievements largely die with him.”

Ifs World Reason Wanted Dies President Politician Achievement Determined Communist Collapse Survived Skillful Castro

Author:Tom Gjelten

“If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.”

Ifs Stills Achievement Greatest Achievement

Author:Cleve Jones

“If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.”

People Ifs Want Doe Important Whole Kids Wealth Poor Class Poverty Achievement Important Things Income African American Gaps Working Class Better Life Achievement Gap American Poverty

Author:Barack Obama

“To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Wells Bigs America Past Three Wealth Chance Right Now Achievement Give Me Gaps Quarters Chunks Achievement Gap Past Wrongs

Author:Barack Obama

“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.”

Ifs Achievement Ocean Storm Ships

Author:Charles Kettering

“My biggest achievement is raising a healthy, happy family. As far as regrets, I don't really have too many. Although I've gone through some things in my life that didn't feel too good while they were happening, they allowed me to mature and develop into the man I am today. Those moments have taught me a lot. I wouldn't be the same person if I hadn't had those experiences.”

Ifs Men Feels Persons Moments Today Gone Taught He Man Regret Healthy Achievement Happenings Mature Happy Family Healthy Happy

Author:Snoop Dogg

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.”

Ifs Love Dream Work Break Wise Achievement Insightful Bows

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.”

Ifs Inspirational Success Opportunity Achievement Window Shade Take A Chance Window Of Opportunity

Book:The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

“The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.”

Ifs World Feels Self Enough Values Individual Numbers Talent Self Esteem Depends Proud Achievement Intellect Determined Esteem Judged Worthwhile Worldly Ladders

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

Ifs Wells Children Form Interest Loses Achievement Importance Enjoyment Comparison Household

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”

People Ifs Would Be Nations Sleep Achievement Majors Fearful Great Nations Calmer

Author:Ben Stein

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

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