Accomplished Quotes - Page 38

• I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

  Mary Decker

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

  Og Mandino

  Opportunity, Men, Departed

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.59, Bantam

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• If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

  P. T. Barnum

  Queens, Humility, Men

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• The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

  James F. Byrnes

  Mean, Agreement, Work Out

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• Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.

  Shaun White

  Eye, Like You, All Time

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• Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

  Art Bell

  Details, Looks, Done

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• I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

  Donovan Bailey

  Fun, Real, Moving

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

  Bram Cohen

  Team, My Own

  "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.

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• There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

  Gina Carano

  Sports, Fighting, Ufc

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• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Laurent Fabius

  Country, Exercise, Technology

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• Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

  Steven Adler

  Past, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  ""Back From The Dead": Steven Adler Delivers A True Rock Masterpiece". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. November 25, 2012.

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• In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Moving, Healing, Health

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

  Eva Longoria

  Done, Proud, My Sister

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• If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Fighting, Order

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• I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

  Kenny Wormald

  Believe, Thinking, Hard Times

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• I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

  Donald Miller

  New York, School, Goal

  "Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast". Interview with Joshua DuBois, www.thedailybeast.com. May 19, 2013.

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• To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Records Breaking, Sound, Events

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• Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

  Carly Fiorina

  Accomplishment, Flying, Clinton

  "Possible GOP Presidential Candidates Woo Iowa". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.

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• I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

  Althea Gibson

  Country, Tennis, Credit

  Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

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• I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

  Chris Chelios

  Emotional, Thinking, Talking

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• Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

  Philip Rieff

  Past, Men, Weight

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dark, Men

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

  Johnny Otis

  Pride, America, Looks

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