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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. -- Thomas J. Watson
Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Enthusiasm and endurance are the greatest spirits of great accomplishments. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster -- Benjamin Graham
Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is not an accomplishment but merely a happening. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. -- Marilynn Dawson
I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. -- Martial
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow. -- Stefan Zweig
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education. -- Oliver DeMille
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up. -- Jennifer Egan
Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment. -- Pau Gasol
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. -- Christopher Hitchens
Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment. -- Curtis Joseph
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. -- Zig Ziglar
A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward. -- Harvey Mackay
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't. -- Renee Fleming
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. -- Jules Verne
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. -- Ben Carson
To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies. -- Ron Fournier
If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment. -- Herb Brooks
By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic. -- Maynard Webb
I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.' -- Dee Dee Myers
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far. -- Robert Griffin III
I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar. -- Clinton Sparks
Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. -- Gary Hamel
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. -- Michael Parenti
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. -- M.A.Kelty

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