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“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Chance Achievement Direct Diners

Author:Barry Levinson

“The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”

Persons Desire Chance Achieve Achievement Outcomes Flexibility

Book:Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

Source: Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“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

“For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.”

Chance Achievement Consequence Uncomfortable

Author:Steve Backley

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“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

“When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.”

Mind Littles Chance Fields Achievement Scientist Luck Fortune Prepared Observation Favour Irritation Great Achievement Great Scientist Pasteur

Book:The Unnatural Nature of Science

Source: The Unnatural Nature of Science

“Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.”

Opportunity Born Chance Demand Equal Achievement Fairs Method Conviction Formulas Individualism Rooted Equal Opportunity

Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism