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«There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
Achievement,
Life
| Keywords:
cut, cut short, cut to, preparation, Short Cuts, thorough, veneer
«Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause»
«The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.»
«People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.»
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Consultant, Speaker)
| About:
Achievement,
Change,
Goals,
People,
Reason,
Senses
| Keywords:
accomplishments, celebrate, correspond, corresponded, corresponds, crucial, good sense, organizational, resist
«That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Achievement,
Succeed
| Keywords:
achieve, All That, as well, proof, proofed
«There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Achievement,
Confidence,
Desire,
Fame,
Freedom,
Strength
| Keywords:
adequacy, defining, prestige, secondly
«Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Achievement,
Students
| Keywords:
achievements, notable, notables, solemn, twentieth, twentieth century
«Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.»
Author: Robert H. Schuller
(Author, Entrepreneur, Reformed Church Minister)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievement, preceded, preceding, preparation, spectacular, unspectacular
«Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
circles, compassion, creatures, embrace, prison, task, widen, widened, widening, widens
«Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| About:
Achievement
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