Achieves Quotes

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Acting and painting have much in common. You begin with the external appearance and then strip away the layers to get to the essential core. This is reality and that is how an artist achieves truth. When you are acting, you are playing a part, you are being somebody else. You are also, at the same time, being yourself.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it`s better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Superhuman effort isn`t worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they`re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people`s will is what achieves victory.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can`t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one`s status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one`s inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.