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The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others’ warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason’s practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it. – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
Listen to something amazing, of all the big parties in the Knesset Likud, Labor, Jewish Home, Shas, Yisrael Beitenu we are the only party, the only one, where none of its leaders or members have ever been investigated, suspected of anything, detained, used the right to remain silent, been indicted or sat in prison. The only one. I can't believe I am listing this as an achievement. – Yair Lapid	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Our latest estimate today is that India has 70 % of the world's tiger population and we have now 2,226 tigers presently in 47 tiger reserves [ up from 1,706 in 2011 ] and this is a great achievement. It is a net increase of 30 % over the last estimation. – Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A free media is a huge achievement for this country made by the people and journalists, not the government. If this situation doesn't change, the small independent news organizations like Khaama will disappear because they cannot function without protection. – Royeen Rahnosh	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I know it's a big achievement, but I have to focus on the skiing. I can't let everyone else's expectations get into my head. So that was my goal this weekend, just trying to ski my best. And I thought I did a really good job. – Lindsey Vonn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The result is a significant achievement in computer poker and in artificial intelligence. – Sam Ganzfried	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As an achievement within the history of spaceflight, EVA is crucial to a long-term ability to reside in space, we needed the capability in order to build and maintain space equipment, as we continue to see on the space station. – Jennifer Levasseur	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Job cuts, declining investment and higher costs are the price that companies and citizens will pay for what is supposedly a great social achievement. – Mario Ohoven	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don’t think they are really warranted in inferring that at all, i think what’s probably happening here is you have young people who may be marginalized, have low academic achievement, more deviance, and they engage in both of these activities. – Russ Callaghan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think what’s probably happening here is you have young people who may be marginalized, have low academic achievement, more deviance, and they engage in both of these activities. – Russ Callaghan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Each time, he took on a candidate he believed in at a time when New York was in crisis, his success in political campaigns can be seen in his extraordinary won-loss record, but his greatest achievement is the sum of his work: a city and state that are stronger than ever. – Michael Bloomberg	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A fine watch can signify an achievement, like branching out on your own, graduating university, or getting your first job, it can mark a new stage in your life. – Andrew Block	Found on CNN 9 years ago
To win it for the first time in 2012 felt like a great achievement but to win again in 2014 is testimony to what has been a truly fabulous year for me. – Rory McIlroy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We think it’s important to measure achievement over longer periods to see if these results hold up or if there is a longer term impact. – Stephanie Anzman-Frasca	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Fifty years after it opened, the longest vehicular suspension bridge in the United States remains an incredible achievement of engineering and architecture. – Thomas Prendergast	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every day, the people of this news organization are turning in the kind of high-quality reporting that is in keeping with our identity and heritage as the home of the best in broadcast journalism, I am confident that this record of achievement will only get better with David Rhodes. – Jeff Fager	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Brian Quintana	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
With all humility, I think, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. – Fred Allen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. – Denis Waitley	added by anonymous 10 years ago

The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others’ warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason’s practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it.

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

Listen to something amazing, of all the big parties in the Knesset Likud, Labor, Jewish Home, Shas, Yisrael Beitenu we are the only party, the only one, where none of its leaders or members have ever been investigated, suspected of anything, detained, used the right to remain silent, been indicted or sat in prison. The only one. I can't believe I am listing this as an achievement.

– Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our latest estimate today is that India has 70 % of the world's tiger population and we have now 2,226 tigers presently in 47 tiger reserves [ up from 1,706 in 2011 ] and this is a great achievement. It is a net increase of 30 % over the last estimation.

– Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A free media is a huge achievement for this country made by the people and journalists, not the government. If this situation doesn't change, the small independent news organizations like Khaama will disappear because they cannot function without protection.

– Royeen Rahnosh

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I know it's a big achievement, but I have to focus on the skiing. I can't let everyone else's expectations get into my head. So that was my goal this weekend, just trying to ski my best. And I thought I did a really good job.

– Lindsey Vonn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The result is a significant achievement in computer poker and in artificial intelligence.

– Sam Ganzfried

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As an achievement within the history of spaceflight, EVA is crucial to a long-term ability to reside in space, we needed the capability in order to build and maintain space equipment, as we continue to see on the space station.

– Jennifer Levasseur

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Job cuts, declining investment and higher costs are the price that companies and citizens will pay for what is supposedly a great social achievement.

– Mario Ohoven

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don’t think they are really warranted in inferring that at all, i think what’s probably happening here is you have young people who may be marginalized, have low academic achievement, more deviance, and they engage in both of these activities.

– Russ Callaghan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think what’s probably happening here is you have young people who may be marginalized, have low academic achievement, more deviance, and they engage in both of these activities.

– Russ Callaghan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Each time, he took on a candidate he believed in at a time when New York was in crisis, his success in political campaigns can be seen in his extraordinary won-loss record, but his greatest achievement is the sum of his work: a city and state that are stronger than ever.

– Michael Bloomberg

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A fine watch can signify an achievement, like branching out on your own, graduating university, or getting your first job, it can mark a new stage in your life.

– Andrew Block

Found on CNN
9 years ago

To win it for the first time in 2012 felt like a great achievement but to win again in 2014 is testimony to what has been a truly fabulous year for me.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We think it’s important to measure achievement over longer periods to see if these results hold up or if there is a longer term impact.

– Stephanie Anzman-Frasca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Fifty years after it opened, the longest vehicular suspension bridge in the United States remains an incredible achievement of engineering and architecture.

– Thomas Prendergast

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every day, the people of this news organization are turning in the kind of high-quality reporting that is in keeping with our identity and heritage as the home of the best in broadcast journalism, I am confident that this record of achievement will only get better with David Rhodes.

– Jeff Fager

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

– Brian Quintana

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

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

– Alfred North Whitehead

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

– Ben Stein