Accomplishment Quotes - Page 27

• Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Smart, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014

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• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Believe, Moving

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• Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Art, Saint

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• The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Power, Purpose, Lord

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• The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Discovery, Century

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• True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.

  Kazuo Koike

  True Joy, Joy, Pleasure

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• If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Mean, Vanity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

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• All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

  Michael Crichton

  Pride, People, Trying

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

  Karen Horney

  Pride, Want, Proud

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• You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

  E. M. Forster

  Intention, Chairs, Remarks

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.118, Booklassic

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• Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

  Steven Pressfield

  Heart, Warrior, Fire

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

  David Mamet

  Art, Expression, Joy

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.24, Vintage

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• Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

  John Calvin

  Motivational, Despair, May

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.23, Baker Books

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• Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.

  Mark Doty

  Achievement, Heroism, Gaston

  Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half smile still on her lips. I remained by her bedside. Cog would be amused by my efforts to comfort an upper. No. Not amused. Proud. I liked Ella. She was a good sort, much nicer than Trella, and I hoped she managed to survive the next thirty hours.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Effort, Comfort, Events

  Maria V. Snyder (2010). “Inside Out”, p.255, Harlequin

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• Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Free Education, Use

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.371, Top Five Books LLC

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• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Believe, Dna

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.202, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Baby, Giving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books

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• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Curves, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

  Jane Austen

  Half, World, Modesty

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.409, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted. “And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!” “Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!

  Georgette Heyer

  Country, Aunt, Advice

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• but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

  David Sedaris

  Lazy, Mind, Enough

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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