Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.
A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
Leadership is an achievement of trust.
KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet society, it's main achievements until the split in 1991, it was at the same time the main achievements of the KGB, because it was working for the same cause.
Education is the great engine to personal development.
Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.
The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.