A Quote by John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

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Accomplishment Activity Confuse Never Want

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John Wooden
American - Coach
October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

Never confuse activity with action.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with results.

Lou Gerstner

If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

Rick Warren

We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

H. R. McMaster

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

Zig Ziglar

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Carly Fiorina

Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

John C. Maxwell

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

Thorstein Veblen

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Bob Goff

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

Bob Parsons

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Wiz Khalifa

I just try to keep that connection to normalcy. I never want to lose that, being normal. People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Wiz Khalifa

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.