#achievement

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. ↗

— Brian May

#achievement #be the first #big #big thing #first

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ability #achievements #forgive #greatest #man

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ↗

— George Takei

#achievements #again #also #certainly #country

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#amazing #elected #handed #hard #help

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#air #always #breath #cast #cent

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#almost #been #biggest #club #cups

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement. ↗

— Robert Plant

#bands #haven #i #know #night

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless