Accomplishing Something Quotes - Page 2

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Differences, People

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• There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

  Paul Stanley

  Differences, People, Planning

  "14 Questions With Paul Stanley". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.

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• Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Definitions, Today

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, Different

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• It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Accomplishment, Matter

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.98, Penguin UK

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• Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Stupidity, Should, Exciting

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• This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little.

  Bae Yong-joon

  Dream, Difficult Questions, Accomplishment

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• Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?

  Ivana Trump

  Life, Motivational, Sound

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• Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

  Terry Fox

  Giving Up, Cancer, Years

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• I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

  Rachel Dratch

  Book, Writing, Creative

  "Rachel Dratch Is An Upper". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Men, Soul, Use

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hard Times, Way, Quiet

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Gun, Sharks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Source: www.justjared.com

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