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• Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

  Willard Libby

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Science

• And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

  Willard Libby

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Individual

• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that – there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in School

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  Adam Ant

  Topics in Achievement, Ambition, Work

  Tags in Realizing

• Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn’t know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

  Pete McCloskey

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Time

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Immortality

• The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

  Frank James Cooper

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Community, Friends, Proud

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Topics in Achievement, Wisdom

  Tags in Contemplation

• Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Topics in Achievement, Expectations

• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Racing

• Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.

  Elle Macpherson

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Self, Greatest

• As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

  William David Trimble Baron Trimble

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Proud

• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Topics in Achievement, Country

  Tags in Glorious

• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Simplicity, Played

• The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

  Charles J. Givens

  Topics in Achievement, Goal

  Tags in Implement

• It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

  Eliot Engel

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Ourselves

• If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don’t think I’d still be playing.

  Chili Davis

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Game, Playing

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  Randy Castillo

  Topics in Achievement, Sports, Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mind

• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  Eyvind Johnson

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Narrator, Poet