Alain de Botton Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Challenges Quotes

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

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How my achievements mock me!

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...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

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Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

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Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

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It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

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