Accomplishment Quotes - page 9

The complete accomplishment of it, in so short a time and by such simple means, was perhaps a singular example in the history of mankind. Thirteen clocks were made to strike together - a perfection of mechanism, which no artist had ever before effected. In this research, the gloriole of individual gentlemen, and of separate States, is of little consequence. The means and the measures are the proper objects of investigation. These may be of use to posterity, not only in this nation, but in South America and all other countries. (John Adams)
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal. View quote
Thomas Paine
We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I firmly believe, for the accomplishment of a purpose of the Divine mind... View quote
George Boole
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. View quote
Chris Evert
Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. View quote
Sarah Brightman
I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am. View quote
Sarah Brightman
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. View quote
Eugene Cernan
It is here that we see the human understanding to its greatest advantage, grasping at the noblest objects, and increasing its own powers, by acquiring to itself the powers of nature, and directing them to the accomplishment of its own views; whereby the security, and happiness of mankind are daily improved. View quote
Joseph Priestley
I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it. (Mario Andretti)
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lacan conceives the difference between the two deaths as the difference being real (biological) death and its symbolization, the settling of accounts the accomplishment of symbolic destiny (deathbed confession in Catholicism, for example). This gap can be filled in various ways; it can contain either sublime beauty or fearsome monsters: in Antigone's case, her symbolic death, her exclusion from the symbolic community of the city, precedes her actual death and imbues her character with sublime beauty, whereas the ghost of Hamlet's father represents the opposite case, - actual death unaccompanied by symbolic death, without a settling of accounts - which is why he returns as a frightful apparition until his debt has been repaid. This place between the two deaths, a place of sublime beauty as well as terrifying monsters, is the site of das Ding, of the real-traumatic Kernel in the midst of symbolic order. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. View quote
Alphonse Karr
This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. View quote
Frank Borman
The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life or what you accomplish with your life dictates what you should be proud of. View quote
Charles Barkley
At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. View quote
Joseph Addison
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger. View quote
George W. Bush
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible. View quote
Steven Pinker
Taste is one of the weaker words in our language. It means a little less than something, a little more than nothing; certainly it conveys no suggestion of potency. It savors of accomplishment, in the fashionable sense, not of power to accomplish in the creative sense. (Louis Sullivan)
He revolutionised cricket. He turned it from an accomplishment into a science. View quote
K. S. Ranjitsinhji
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, "Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!" View quote
Bill Bryson
No trace is to be found in the Constitution of an intention to create a dependence of the Government of the Union on those of the States, for the execution of the great powers assigned to it. Its means are adequate to its ends, and on those means alone was it expected to rely for the accomplishment of its ends. To impose on it the necessity of resorting to means which it cannot control, which another Government may furnish or withhold, would render its course precarious, the result of its measures uncertain, and create a dependence on other Governments which might disappoint its most important designs, and is incompatible with the language of the Constitution. View quote
John Marshall