Accomplished Quotes - Page 21

• I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

  Brad Pitt

  Success, Regret, Book

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• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  Raekwon

  Fans, Cuban, Projects

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• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  Nancy Reagan

  Dinner, States

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Needs

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• I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Proud, Might, Chairs

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Ambitious

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

  Maria Shriver

  Alzheimer's, Parent, Disease

  "Alzheimer’s: A Baby Boomer Epidemic" by Maria Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Men, Church

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because I feel accomplished.

  Alison Sweeney

  Workout, Sweat, Done

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• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Circles, League

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.165, Jules Verne

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• For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Opera, Curious

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• I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

  Lil Wayne

  Accomplish

  The GQ Interview, www.gq.com. October 20, 2011.

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• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  Felicia Day

  Creating, Goal, Community

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• We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

  Niecy Nash

  Next, Compare, Persons

  "Niecy Nash Rebuts Reality TV Haters:‘We Are Talented, Too’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.

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• To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Focus, Saving, Christ

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• Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Optimistic, Optimism And Pessimism

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• But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dream, Stars, Angel

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

  John Irving

  People, Feelings, Moments

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• This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Horse, Stars, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

  Charles Dickens

  Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Happens

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.723, Penguin

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• The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  World, Deeds, Betterment

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• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

  Albert Camus

  Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Hate, Latin, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree

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• A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Hands, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 5

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