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Achievement Quotes

The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

Children Achievement School Parents

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Growth Knowledge Alone Achievement

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Work Achievement Ambition Results

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Great Achievement People Church

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.

Achievement School Celebrate Strong

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

Juliette Gordon Low

Girl Achievement Sister Sympathy

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

James S. Coleman

Eyes Achievement Giving Data Focused

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Character Experience Achievement Who

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

Hero Achievement Mentor Looks Person

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

Achievement Mistake Turn Out May

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Mathematics Achievement Me Problem

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

Live Great Achievement Fun Action

It is Leistikow's lasting achievement - and will always remain so - that he found a style that can express the melancholy charm of the surroundings of Berlin. We see the Grunewald lakes and those on the upper Spree through his eyes; he has taught us to see their beauty.

Beauty Eyes Style Achievement Will

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness Achievement Lie Does

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

John Hickenlooper

Children Achievement Start Want Must

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Happiness Light Achievement Feel

I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good.

Family Love Good Achievement World

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

Achievement Brainy Place Expectation

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Education Children Achievement Labor

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

Success Achievement Me Thought Bad

When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Good Live Morning Achievement World

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Achievement Yourself People You Set

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

Music Achievement Push You Out Head

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.

Alone Water Achievement Flying Paris

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