Best achievement & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.”

Needs Government Individual Growth Company Failing Economic Higher Taxes Achievement Innovation Economic Growth Individual Achievement

Author:Reince Priebus

“We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.”

Needs Important Environment Mets Achievement Mental Health Environmental Decades Cleaners Environmental Health

Author:Samuel Wilson

“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”

People Thinking World Needs Littles Happens Today Values Left Judging Achievement Happenings Busy Speed Things Happen Meaning Of Life Little Time Time Left Little Time Left

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.”

“Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.”

“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.”

Needs Culture Process Successful Greater Achievement Entrepreneur Envy Treated Enterprise Commerce Suspicion Readiness Mistrust Disdain Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Norman Tebbit

“Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.”

“Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.”

Needs Humans Lines Company Focus Products Achievement West Bottom East Emphasis Bottom Line Human Relationships Westerners Affiliation

Author:Daniel Goleman

“We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.”

Needs Hard Hard Work Taxes Achievement Innovation Investment Saving Code Savings

Author:Erik Paulsen

“The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.”

“If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.”

Ifs Needs Enough Values Rich Achieve Achievement Happenings Power Over Others

Author:Jason Segel

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.”

“We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.”

Needs Existence Achievement Release Excitement Boredom Shops Unruly

Book:Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

Source: Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.”

Want Needs Humans Children Father Understanding Enemy Taught Equal Achievement Inclusion Taught Us Needs And Wants Understanding Love

Author:Rula Jebreal

“It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.”

Needs Feels May Long Ends Able Walks Achievement Cooking Guilty Meals The End Of The Day Laziness Odds Impressive Upbringing Long Walks

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.”

Men Needs Wells Said Might Pleasure Talking Greater Subjects Duty Habit Achievement Consideration Boast Conceit Talking Much

Author:Martin Van Buren

“It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.”

Needs Enough Problem Running Turns Results Attention Achievement Illusion Arise Outcomes Anxious Enough Time Time Is Running Out

Author:Satish Kumar

“What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive ethologists arguing that we need to attribute propositional attitudes to some animals in order to explain the sophistication of their cognitive achievements.”

Needs Firsts Important Ideas Play Order Animal Attitude Roles Theory Achievement Arguing Attributes Cognitive Sophistication

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.”

Needs Important Together Century Achievement Europe Working Together Divided Contrast Protected Continents

Author:Barack Obama

“Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.”

Knows Needs Stills Book Might Sound Strange Degrees Achievement Encouragement Lifetime Awards Encouraging Honorary Lifetime Achievement Need Encouragement

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”

World Needs Happens Freedom Race Consciousness Virtue Cry Achievement Islam Contemporary Islamic Extinction Outstanding Propagation

Book:Civilization on Trial

Source: Civilization on Trial

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”

World Needs Change Violence Achieve Essentials Achievement Survival Inevitable Nonviolence Black History Change Is Inevitable Inevitable Change

Book:A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

“Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.”

Men Needs Facts Action Found Speak Creative Achievement Burden Mood Length Melancholy Imperatives

Author:Martin Heidegger

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

Needs Feels Kind Ideas Artist Certain Pieces Worst Lucky Achievement Luck Blindness Great Artist Make Out Milton Ordeals Deafness Goya

Author:John Berryman

“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."”

Needs Children Self Funny Parent Car Self Esteem Proud Achievement Humorous Witty Esteem Sufficient Sarcastic Minors Promoting Stupid People Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Scholastics

Author:George Carlin

“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”

Needs Mean Order Goal Can Do Rich Higher Achievement Ideals Finals Accomplishment Italian Doing Nothing Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Best Eat Pray Love

Book:Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark”

Men Needs Doe Matter Energy Numbers Minutes Mines Achievement Claims One Minute Fountainhead Howard Roark

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.”

Ifs Needs Moments Difficult Existence Consciousness Our Lives Achievement Hope To Live

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.”

People Thinking Needs Wells Book Matter Moments Might Motivational Judging Bears Achievement No Matter What Witness Convince Shortcomings Transgression Convince Us Rare Moments

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.”

Men Needs Achievement Highest Forgiveness

Book:Spirit in Man: Sermons and Selections

Source: Spirit in Man: Sermons and Selections

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.”

Source: John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

“I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.”

Life Needs Done Helping Earth Left Given Strength Integrity Achievement Ethics Fairs Better Place

Author:Carl Hoppe

“Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”

Needs Giving Helping Shows Happiness Young Artist Vision Knowledge Courage Mines Brother Achievement Let Me Give Me My Brother Help Me Show Me Fountainhead Young Artists

Author:Ayn Rand

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

Needs Enough Change Community Forget Progress Achievement Ambition Sake Prosperity Aspiration Broads Collaboration Social Change Our Community Needs Of Others

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.”

Men Needs Made Liberty Creation Taught He Man Achievement Praise Charity Creator Admire Distribution Fountainhead Beneficiaries Acts Of Charity

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”

“Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.”

“The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.”

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.”

“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.”

People Needs Suffering Given Compassion Successful Honesty Achievement Comfortable Tests Mood Primaries Underprivileged

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.”

Knows Men Needs Years Young Mother Wife Influence Achieve Achievement Highest Motherhood Young Man Good Woman Good Wife

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.”

Knows Needs Humans Science Spirit Universe Knowledge Achievement Corners Genuine Concerts Nevertheless Human Spirit Incomplete Great Achievement Physical Science

Author:Arthur David Ritchie

“If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.”

“Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.”

Needs Speak Achievement Capitalism Propaganda Goods Apostles

Book:Money, method, and the market process: essays

Source: Money, method, and the market process: essays

“To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.”

Needs Art Two Real Moments Motivational Enjoy Ability Quality Skills Achievement Extraordinary Fulfillment Quality Of Life

Author:Tony Robbins

“Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.”

Men Needs Children Women Roles Share Willing Taste Husband Achievement Models Role Models Surrogates Personal Success

Author:Elizabeth Dole

“One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers. As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs. Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement. As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.”

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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