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“Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.”

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Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.”

“I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.”

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Author:Will Smith

“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

“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.”

Life Is Fall Process Subjects Achievement Finished This Life Slips Precarious

Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.”

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Author:Oscar Hammerstein II

“Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.”

Life Is Process Numbers Achievement Finite Finite Number

Author:Bill Gates

“We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.”

People Giving Trying Years Matter Moments Process Changed Huge Giving Up Achievement Miracle Embrace Obsessed Fitting Buckets Trying To Change

Author:Martha Beck

“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.”

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Book:Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

Source: Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

“Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.”

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Author:William Monahan

“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

“We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.”

People Inspirational Long Process Views Products Confidence Achievement Accomplishment

Author:John Eliot

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.”

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Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”

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Book:The Professor's House

Source: The Professor's House

“So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.”

Thinking Heart Soul Process Enjoy Achievement Dance Finals Profession Heart And Soul Just Dance

Author:Jacques d'Amboise

“It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.”

“People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.”

People Heart Self Lying Process Levels Struggle Higher Achievement Self Improvement Adversity Constant Improvement Climbs Higher Level Inertia Constant Struggle Repeated Failure

Book:Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

Source: Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

“Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.”

“Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality”

“Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.”

“But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.”

Actors Process Missing Achievement Missing You

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.”

Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.”

Men Earth Spirit Next Process Steps Evolution Achievement Logic Intention Finals Inevitable

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.”

Writing Book Easy Process Achievement Satisfying Enjoyable Writing A Book

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.”

“Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.”

Character Process Freedom Creativity Creative Achievement Radical Heroic Strength Of Character

Book:The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation

Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation