Accomplished Quotes - Page 37

• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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• Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Like You, Refreshing

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• As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Musician, Accomplish

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• I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.

  Gabby Douglas

  Memories, Never Forget, Bigs

  "EXCLUSIVE: Gabby Douglas and Mom Natalie Hawkins on Historic Win, Hair, and Inspiring Black Girls". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. August 10, 2012.

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• The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Order, Expectations, Purpose

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• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  Savitri Devi

  Christian, Religious, Dark

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• In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Science, Design, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

  Anne Bernays

  Strong, Writing, Wind

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• Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share, one with another, such experiences as may have common value.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Desire

  "The Text of Three Recordings".

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• Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, West

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• Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, School, Sheep

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Lying, Creativity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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• When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Tasks

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• ... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

  J. D. Salinger

  Talkers, Please, Non Stop

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• According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Public Opinion, Balls

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.493, Princeton University Press

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

  Stendhal

  Doe, Deeds, Stuff

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Trying, Tasks

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.32, Random House

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• When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Loyalty, Perseverance, Teaching

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• If through fear of God you cutoff your own will - inexplicably, for you do not know how this happens - God will give you His will. You will keep it indelibly in your heart, opening the eyes of your mind so that you recognize it; and you will be given the strength to fulfill it. The grace of the Holy Spirit operates these things: without it, nothing is accomplished.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Heart, Eye

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• It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

  Randall Wright

  Work, Mean, Doe

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• Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.

  Walter Dornberger

  Today, Realizing, Born

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• Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

  Donn Moomaw

  People, Role Models, Important

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• Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.

  Kitty Kelley

  Children, Two, White

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