Adam Gopnik Quotes, Accomplishment Quotes, Adults Quotes

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

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Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes , Feel Good Quotes

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

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Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes

For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes

All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes , Goal Quotes