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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
B. F. Skinner
Daily
Achievement
People
Example
Sense
Once
Small
Hand
Task
Personal
Tasks
Dishes
Even
Washing
Filled
Activities
Lives
Daily Lives
Mundane
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson
Achievement
Made
First
Diner
Would
Direct
First Of All
Got
Been
Get
Just
Chance
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
Barry Schwartz
Work
Achievement
People
World
Money
Pride
Others
Would
Would-Be
About
Excellence
Pursue
Could
Take
Ideal
Ideal World
Nobody
Knowing
Improved
Just
Meaning
Derive
Lives
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
Great
Me
Achievement
People
Fear
Nation
Would
Would-Be
See
Fearful
Great Nation
More
Major
Concentrate
Sure
Around
Makes
Am
Were
Itself
Getting
Confident
Just
Happier
Plain
Less
Alert
Sleep
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Depression
War
Me
Achievement
Parents
Ambition
High
High Expectations
Both
Individual
Never
Because
Were
Expectations
Achieved
Wanted
Transferred
Deserved
I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Great
Achievement
Saw
Liked
Very
Avatar
Much
Great Achievement
Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.
Big Narstie
Music
Good
Achievement
Sports
Black
Add
Back
Ghetto
Kid
Out
About
Only
Could
Years
Years Ago
Itself
Get
Going
Being
The Only Thing
Which
Star
Now
Thing
I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
Bill Bryson
Alone
Achievement
Water
Before
Extraordinary
Flying
Bay
Exactly
Atlantic
Charles
Paris
Never
Open
Had
He
Over
How
Ireland
Quite
Straight
Realized
Then
Planned
Flew
Flown
The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
Bill Simmons
Achievement
Will
Val
Else
Jim
Will Ferrell
Though
Besides
Could
Absolutely
Nailed
Nobody
Nobody Else
Well
Opinion
Does
Off
Michael
Role
Owned
Burgundy
In My Opinion
Anyone
Anyway
Ron
Acting
Who
Hardest
Played
Pull
I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.
Bipasha Basu
Work
Me
You
Achievement
People
Become
Think
Way
Tell
Kind
Would
About
Lifetime
Remembered
How
Am
Person
Brash
Any
Done
Just
Want
Them
Ask
Award
Receive
Profound
Here
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Bo Bennett
Success
You
Achievement
Game
Master
Odds
Control
Think
Increasing
Over
Concepts
Begin
Personal
Personal Achievement
Achieving
Which
Your
Chance
If you raise a cool adult, that's an achievement.
Bobcat Goldthwait
You
Achievement
Adult
Cool
Raise
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
Brad Sherman
Achievement
Reward
Honor
President
Meeting
Our
States
Those
Recognize
Strive
Must
Athletic
Bestow
About
Academic
Academically
Talk
Just
Should
Who
Foster
United
United States
Champions
Need
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
Brian Ferneyhough
You
Achievement
Respect
Doubt
Respective
Correct
No Doubt
See
Archetypes
Reluctant
Individual
French
Although
Am
Reduced
Traditions
German
I think it's always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want to base it on myself... do something that I can be proud of, and then I'll be happy.
Bronte Campbell
Myself
Achievement
Be Happy
Happy
Stupid
Think
Else
Someone
Something
Stupid Thing
Always
Proud
Just
Want
Then
Really
Your
Base
Thing
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
Bryn Terfel
Time
Achievement
Happy
Mother
First
Singing
Mountains
Breath
Air
Per
Cast
Clean
Clean Air
Part
First Time
Mother Tongue
Fresh
Always
Welsh
Itself
Walked
Cent
Which
Room
Personally
Milestone
Speaking
Rehearsal
Company
Tongue
I have no regrets about doing 'Strictly.' This is the biggest achievement of my life.
Caroline Flack
Life
Achievement
My Life
Strictly
About
No Regrets
Doing
Biggest
Regrets
Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.
Chanda Kochhar
Good
Achievement
Will
Leader
Country
Big
Become
Gone
Think
Changes
Has-Been
Cash
Through
Economy
Does
Been
Itself
Going
Them
Less
Large
Many
Even
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
You
Achievement
Will
Resources
Locate
Able
More
Implement
Identify
Goal
Quickly
Create
Use
Your
Measurable
Specific
Necessary
The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh
Achievement
Construction
Simple
Bird
Birds
Airplane
Evolutionary
Would
Rather
Had
Than
Choose
Compared
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
Charles M. Schwab
Great
Achievement
Result
Opportunity
Mind
Men
Every
Has-Been
Dream
Individual
Development
Industrial
Practical
Make
Been
Effort
I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.
Christopher Lee
Achievement
Book
People
Wait
Nothing
Think
Other
Rings
Lifetime
Had
Written
Like
Greatest
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Still
Been
Literary
Then
Many
Ever
Second
Third
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
Dan Gelber
Needs
You
Achievement
Celebrate
Financial
Strong
School
Will
Accountability
Mediocrity
Broaden
Adequate
System
Only
Investment
True
Until
Well
Without
Understands
Narrow
Continue
Expense
Curriculum
Happen
Cannot
Bar
Florida
Funding
Raise
Need
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
Daniel Goleman
Achievement
Focus
Relationships
Those
East
More
Bottom
Bottom Line
Put
Emphasis
Line
West
Lot
Affiliation
Human
While
Product
Companies
Appear
Human Relationships
Need
I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.
Daniel Tammet
Me
Achievement
Think
Difficulty
Late
Way
Idea
Talent
Course
Comfortable
Very
Being
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
Achievement
Game
College
Important
Say
Kind
Some
About
Highest
Academic
End
Up
Grades
Going
After
Mean
Means
Who
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