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“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”

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Author:Margaret Spellings

“For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.”

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Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.”

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Author:Jamie Bell

“Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”

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Author:Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

“Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”

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Book:Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.”

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Author:Tessa Dare

“But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.”

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Book:Loving God

Source: Loving God

“One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.”

“Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.”

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Author:Napoleon Hill

“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”

“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.”

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Author:George F. Kennan

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”

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Author:Ken Robinson