#achieve

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway? ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#choice #death #meeting-people #people #pleasure

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard. ↗

— Glenn Seaborg

#work #life

ليس لنا أن نتطلع إلى هدفٍ يلوح لنا باهتاً من بعد ، وإنما علينا أن ننجز ما بين أيدينا من عمل واضح بيِّن. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clear #goal #life #work #life

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieves #between #careers #consistently #distance

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person. ↗

— Greg Lake

#art #because #business #challenges #goal

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#alienation #beings #destiny #human #human beings

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#cunning #else #glory #happy #happy people

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. ↗

— Max Lerner

#america #brand #competition #freedom #idea

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#appease #balance #business #career #i

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#freedom #glorious #human #never #reign