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“... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.”

World Mean Persons Problem Individual Difficult Creative Achievement Mere Cures Uplifting Organized Controlled Be Creative Feats

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.”

Trying Past Difficult Achievement

Author:Michael Jackson

“Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.”

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Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”

Ifs May Fall Easy Difficult Cases Confidence Achievement Tasks Have Confidence Belief In Self Dismay Dismayed Easy Tasks

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.”

Love Humans Difficult Human Beings Achievement Capacity Realization

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.”

Writing Mind May Has Beens Stills Book Different Next Difficult Achievement Conscious Limitation Irrational Refrain Fulfilment

Author:Iris Origo

“Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army”

People Said Two Hard Would Be Difficult Known Kings Achievement Army England Warrior Conquer Great Achievement Valiant Norway

Author:Snorri Sturluson

“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.”

“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”

Writing Difficult Rooms Quiet Achievement Cooking Constant Details Knees Kitchen Leisure Toms Uncles Paragraph Housework Cabins Uncle Tom Quiet Room

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.”

World Left Difficult This World Achievement Profound Simplicity Difficult Things

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.”

Self Difficult Realizing Achievement Despite Vulnerable Aspiration Notable Dissatisfaction Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

Thinking Inspirational Seems Difficult Impossible Evolution Achievement Difficulty Philosophical Accomplish Impossibility Impossible Things Possible And Impossible Achieving The Impossible Accomplishing Great Things

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.”

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Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big