Achieve Quotes - Page 14

• One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Pay, Determine, Prepared

  "Vietnam: A Television History (Legacies)". TV Mini-series, openvault.wgbh.org. July 11, 1983.

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• Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

  Gerhard Richter

  Snapshots, States, Pure

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• To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

  Herb Ritts

  Play, Trying, Elements

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• I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I'm lucky - not to have been a cover girl - but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it's still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I've earned is down to me, and no one else.

  Lea Seydoux

  Beautiful, Girl, Jobs

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• How about we get rid of separate bathrooms for boys and girls? Gays and straights share the bathroom with zero issues. We need to put an end to the sexist pooping policies of yesterday. The only way to achieve gender equality is to start crapping in front of each other.

  Daniel Tosh

  Girl, Zero, Gay

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• Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Photography, Mean, Giving

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• When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

  Bill Engvall

  Feelings, Looks, World

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• If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

  Chris Hardwick

  Success, Choices, Wish

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.54, Penguin

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• I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

  Alex Bogusky

  Greatness, People, Matter

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• There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Winning, Victory, Way

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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• The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

  Victor Burgin

  Political, Identity, Doe

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• The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Drama, Years

  Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

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• There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.

  Phil Stern

  Photography, Perfect, Challenges

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• It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Mean, Questioning Why, Choices

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• When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

  Jack Welpott

  Trying, Cameras, Musician

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• I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

  Art Wolfe

  Animal, Hands, Trying

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• The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, Humanix Books

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• The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

  Bruce Schneier

  Sacrifice, Technology, People

  "Our Newfound Fear of Risk". www.schneier.com. September 3, 2013.

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• It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

  James A. Forbes

  Revenge, Soul, Longing

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• Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Fire, Mind

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• Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Believe, People

  "A Just Cause, Not a Just War" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

  Manning Marable

  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Love You, Making Love, Desire

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Believe, Technology, Suffering

  Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.

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• [Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science.... As long as we have a functioning political left, we still have a chance to achieve our country, to make it the country of Whitman's and Dewey's dreams.

  Richard Rorty

  Dream, Country, Law

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