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#achievement

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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.


Saul Perlmutter


#cities #environment #everyone #forward #getting

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.


Robert Plant


#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.


David Remnick


#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.


David Remnick


#change #deeper #degrees #enormous #enough

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.


David Rockefeller


#apparent #being #eldest #every #father

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.


Fredric Jameson


#aid #clauses #dominance #effort #end

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.


George Santayana


#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#distrust #generally #greatest #human #human mind

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.


Hu Shih


#basis #better #biological #death #decay

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.


Harold Taylor


#become #best #lie #roots #true






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