#achieve

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#actually #fluid #goal #life #never

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#almost #anything #become #effort #hard

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#achieve #cent #corny #good #happily

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#dreams #go #goals #hard #really

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#agree #civilization #justice #moral #must

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ↗

— H. G. Wells

#america #attempt #avert #call #collapse

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today. ↗

— William Weld

#america #challenge #country #economic #everybody