A Quote by John Wooden

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

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Accomplishment Activity Confuse Never

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

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

Never confuse activity with action.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse activity with results.

Lou Gerstner

Never confuse activity with productivity.

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

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

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

Bob Goff

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.

Eric Swalwell

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

Robin Sharma

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Karl Marx

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Carly Fiorina

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.