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“Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.”

Wells America Speak Language Achievement Majors North America

Author:Dick Pound

“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”

Men Children Play Whole Facts Speak Language Parent Moral Roles Achievement Conscience Organization Complexes Factors Indispensable Formation Prohibition

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.”

Knows World Way Kids Speak Teaching Achievement Innovation Jazz Be Good Chiefs Prize Great Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.”

Past Speak Forget Doubt Achievement Difficulty Track Painful Discouragement Forget The Past

Author:Ethel Barrymore

“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.”

Doe Stills Today Speak Achieve Prove Achievement Yesterday Settling Fixed Attractive Each Day

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“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

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.”

Speak Doubt Achievement Track Discouragement Forget The Past

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“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

“I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.”

Knows Wells I Can Speak Language Achievement Considering Hindi I Can Read

Author:Katrina Kaif

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.”

Looks Use Age Speak Quality Records Achievement Tension Climbing Satisfying Expansion Routes Pioneers Bolts Climbers Traverse

Author:Allen Steck