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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life. -- Thomas A. Edison
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. -- Eric Clapton
I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something. -- Jonny Lang
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. -- Rachel Dratch
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something. -- Paul Stanley
Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion. -- Peter Drucker
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing. -- Ernest Hemingway
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. -- Neal Stephenson
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. -- Colonel Sanders
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today. -- Jim Butcher
Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something. -- Jean Kerr
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future. -- Freya Stark
Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change? -- Ivana Trump
The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others. -- George H. W. Bush
When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference. -- Jack Canfield
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people. -- Noel Tichy
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are. -- Ken Robinson
When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook. -- Bob Proctor
I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence. -- Steven Spielberg
Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried -- Terry Fox
There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in. -- Kid Cudi
This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little. -- Bae Yong-joon
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. -- Evangeline Lilly
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. -- George A. Sheehan
A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something. -- Reid Hoffman
Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world. -- Sakyong Mipham
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. -- Colonel Sanders
Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs. -- Stephen Covey

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