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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.”

People Different Sometimes Difficult Views Steps Achieve Cost Block Reduction

Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.”

States Problem Difficult Achieve Crime Creation Cost Boundaries Welfare Unemployment Promoting

Author:William J. Brennan

“The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.”

People Reason Pain Purpose Vision Achieve Cost Endure Worthwhile

Author:Danny Silk

“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.”

Whole Achieve Return Amount Cost Management Rate Investing Average Active Managers Fund Expenses Gross Percentages Disadvantages Transactions Index Funds Active Management

Author:Burton Malkiel

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

“The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.”

World Way Believe Wells Helping Energy Strong Grows Goal Growth Seeing Achieve Position Cost Demand Lows Fundamentals Clean Wave Customers Pool Volume Lofty Clean Energy Lofty Goals

Author:Alan Armstrong

“The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.”

Men Stills Important Easy Struggle Greater Rights Achieve Danger Cost Claims Committed Peaceful Protest March Hope For The Future Turbulence

Book:RFK: collected speeches

Source: RFK: collected speeches

“For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology.”

World Has Beens Helping Jobs Individual Technology Achieve Cost Projects International Around The World Boards Online Volunteer

Author:David Batstone

“On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.”

Ideas States Fighting Winning Felt United United States Achieve Effects Cost Late Approach Lows Objectives Compromise Occasions Warfare Ignored Naive 1960s Outbreaks

Author:William J. Duiker

“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.”

“The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.”

Matter Lines Simple Achieve Fronts Position Products Return Truth Is Cost Surprise Rewards Loyalty Decent Goods Inviting Merchandise

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”

Evil Achieve Cost Goodness Be Good Terrific

Author:Stephen King