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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
edmund hillary— Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
josiah gilbert holland— P. 367. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.
— Walter Russell, THINK - IBM Lecture Series.
To accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them.
mozi— Book 1; On the necessity of standards
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
edward albee— Saturday Review (4 May 1966)
The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
iain banks— Chapter 4 “Temple of Light” (p. 96)
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.
john allen fraser— Preface, p. xi
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten ) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
asger jorn— As quoted in On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972 (1989), edited by Elisabeth Sussman, p. 142
Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.
tom delay— As reported from "Late Edition" on CNN 1997 April 6
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
chauncey depew— My Memories of Eighty Years (1922), p. 318
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
william carlos williams— 1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
lester bangs— "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves" (March 1975), p. 173
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.
théodore guérin— Letter to the Very Reverend A. Martin, V.G., Logansport, 1841-10-19
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.
yukio mishima— Runaway Horses (1969), as translated by Michael Gallagher (1973)
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.
erik naggum— Re: O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut (Usenet article)
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.
george s. patton— Letter to Frederick Ayers (5 May 1943), published in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 242
For if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal.
rudolf virchow— 1849 (quoted in Pathologies of Power, by Paul Farmer, page 323)
I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less... (1947)
buckminster fuller— Earth, Inc. (1973) ISBN 0-385-01825-8 This is just part of a very long sentence that covers the whole first page, but in this part of the quote, the intention of the entire book is stated.
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
friedrich von schiller— Act III, sc. i.
Some have supposed that Brother Joseph could not die; but this is a mistake: it is true there have been times when I have had the promise of my life to accomplish such and such things, but, having now accomplished those things, I have not at present any lease of my life, I am as liable to die as other men.
smith, joseph, jr.— History of the Church 4:587
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
l. neil smith— Statement of purpose, L. Neil Smith's "The Webley Page"[1]
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,...
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 3
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
George W. Goethals— In the Nat. Assoc. of Corporation Schools Bulletin. Feb., 1918
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Jerry Rice— Former NFL Football Player
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.
— Section 4 : Moral Ideals
To accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them.
— Book 1; On the necessity of standards
