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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
edmund hillaryIt 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 hollandDo 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.
To accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them.
moziIn 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 jornNewt 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 delayA witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
chauncey depewFor what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
william carlos williamsA 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[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 guérinThe 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 mishimaOptimization 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 naggumThe 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. pattonFor 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 virchowI 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 fullerWho reflects too much will accomplish little.
friedrich von schillerSome 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.What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
l. neil smithThe 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,...
vitruviusSuccessfully 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. GoethalsToday I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Jerry RiceTo accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them.