The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.
The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements. . . those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper. . . when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.
Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.
The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.
