#achievement

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#country #does #freedom #grew #hope

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#always #back #comes #doing #down

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#always #back #comes #down #given

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world. ↗

— Donna Rice

#college #confidence #gained #had #i

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ↗

— Marc Ribot

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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#achievements #after #city #continued #except

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#achievement #change #close #educators #gap

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#closing #critical #doing #gap #how

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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