Top 1200 Goal Achievement Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

We must make it clear to younger girls that being someone's wife is not an achievement.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.

I remember after that, when it was announced I was going to the Heisman ceremony, I didn't think I was going to win it because everybody was saying there was a bias against West Coast teams. I really hadn't paid attention to it. Winning the Heisman wasn't really a goal when I was younger. My goal was to go to USC and win a national championship.

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

My biggest achievement at Cardiff is bringing the whole club together in my two years here.

Bringing a medal for the country is the biggest achievement, and that is why I am very happy.

When people say: 'What's your biggest achievement?' Giving birth. Forget the rest of it.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

For many female wrestlers, the opportunity to fight for the title represents the crowning achievement of their careers.

The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.

The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

I definitely don't have a music industry goal because I've done that and completed that work. My quest is to find new platforms for music to live. Once we do that and find different ways of getting music to people, whether that's 5000 or 1 million people, I'll feel successful. I want to make sure I'm adding something to the marketplace, so that's my goal.

Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I've met in terms of charisma and achievement.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.