#achievements

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes. ↗

— Richard Neal

#also #based #believe #burden #come

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

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#amazing #australian #celebrate #come #community

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels. ↗

— Ahmed H. Zewail

#life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #believe #believe-and-achieve #dare #dare-to-win

Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#peers #age

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#charms #could #immortal #inspired #more

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had