“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!” PeopleGivingFactsMotivationalFoundGoalQualityStudyFiveFeetTalentSourceGiving UpAchievementCreatingResourcesCommittedPersistenceBelieve In YourselfDedicationQuality Of LifeRecipe For SuccessGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever Surrender Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.” KnowsYearsIssuesFiveInvolvedTenCreatingCreating SomethingPersonal Issues Author:Steve Martin
“When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.” YearsTurnsThreeStepsEnemyFivePlansTvsCreatingModelsConceptsRussiaErasGiantsFive YearsNightmareSovietTurn-onMissilesFive Year Plans Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsCasesFiveHappenedCreatingAreasPatternsLocalsParksFive YearsDozenLegislationProposeNational Parks Author:Mo Udall
“President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.” SaidFightingStarsPresidentWatchesEconomyFiveMilitaryCreatingThreatComplexesResistanceEmpiresTaxpayersDevouringDrainingMilitary Industrial ComplexDwightDwight Eisenhower Author:Ralph Nader
“You go ask any founder of any company why he or she did it, you will never hear, "I wanted to create jobs for the community" as the number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number 10 reason for doing so. That is a result of the success the business enjoys. Creating jobs is not why people start businesses. Creating jobs is not how people innovate in business. It's not how they compete.” PeopleTwoReasonWantedJobsThreeAsksEnjoyCommunityResultsNumbersCompanyFiveFourCreatingFoundersCreating JobsNumber ThreeNumber 10 Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.” PeopleYearsHelpingBigsOpportunityGamesRaceFiveEventsCreatingMajorsSeriesI RealizedFive YearsSmokingHelp MeOlympicsBostonMarathonProposalCosmeticsOlympic GamesPoppiesMunichSponsorshipAvon Author:Kathrine Switzer