#achieve

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#am #amazing #anywhere #competition #development

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. ↗

— Panayiotis Zavos

#achieve #ambition #because #bodies #correctly

Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called "the will to power," which he considered the major driving force behind human behavior, is one of the three basic motivations, along with achievement and affiliation, that differentiate us as individuals. A simple experiment show show these broad emotional motivations can affect what you pay attention to or ignore on very basic levels. When they examine images of faces that express different kinds of emotion, power-oriented subjects are drawn to nonconfrontational visages, such as "surprise faces," rather than to those that suggest dominance, as "anger faces" do. In contrast, people spurred by affiliation gravitate toward friendly or joyful faces. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #control #dominance #focus #motivation

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#achieve #become #cultivated #fear #mastery

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#achieved #against #alone #corporation #could

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#acknowledge #amazing #embarrassed #great #great nation

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#after #dedicated #happiness #making #more

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#around #bitterness #breeds #cannot #half-hearted

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#background #beggar #being #costume #deep