#accomplishments

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year. ↗

— David Brooks

#affection #connections #consciousness #happiness #information

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#give #knowledge #luster #many #may

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#his #i #i think #jim #lot

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#bites #congress #hard #hard work #horse

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face! ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#actor #also #am #face #hope

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#both #enough #i #lived #long

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#awareness #caucus #child #communities #enforcement

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#achievement #best #big #depend #get