#achievement

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dreams #failure #fear #dreams

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#also #base #highest #i #i think

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#greatness #mediocrity #dreams

Your greatest achievement is to love me. ↗

— Prince Charles

#greatest #greatest achievement #love #love me #me

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#failure #go #hit #miss #process

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#board #child #educational #fellow #fellow students

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adverse #background #backgrounds #children #educational

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#along #beings #believe #better #come

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#been #chance #diner #direct #first