Top 100 Quotes About Achievement Gap
#1. Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
Chris Gabrieli
#2. It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
#4. The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.
Robert D. Putnam
#5. The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences
Hillary Clinton
#6. I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings
#7. Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
Sheryl Sandberg
#8. We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
Wendy Kopp
#9. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
#10. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!
Orison Swett Marden
#11. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney
#12. The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
#13. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
#14. Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over again and again until they grasp the concept.
Euginia Herlihy
#15. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
Bruce Lee
#16. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#17. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#18. Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace ... .
James A. Murphy
#19. Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.
Wayne Gretzky
#20. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#21. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
Margaret Mead
#22. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#23. We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.
LeCrae
#24. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
Jack Kornfield
#26. Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Virat Kohli
#28. So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
#30. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#31. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Napoleon Hill
#32. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#33. The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#35. A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.
Sara Sheridan
#36. Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
Bertrand Russell
#37. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
Nelson Mandela
#39. A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas Merrill
#40. We may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because
Bill Bryson
#41. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Carl Jung
#42. We are successful
the moment we start toward
a laudable goal
J. Benson
#43. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda
#44. Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.
Khaled Hosseini
#45. When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
Roz Savage
#46. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#47. Often, it is such negative thoughts and negative self affirmations that cripple your self confidence. No one is to say how long it will take you to reclaim back your self-esteem but what remains constant, is that the journey towards that achievement must start now!
T. Whitmore
#48. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
Tina Fey
#49. You'll never get it if you can't see yourself having it.
Toni Sorenson
#50. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#51. The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
James Cook
#52. Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
Bruce Lee
#53. You must learn everything that will help you achieve your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#54. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#55. I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#56. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.
Frederick Herzberg
#57. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
Gerry Lindgren
#58. I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#59. To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
George W Truett
#60. All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
Caroline Knapp
#62. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Napoleon Hill
#63. To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
Olly Murs
#64. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#65. To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end ... THIS is achievement
Neil Patel
#66. To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.
Tony Robbins
#67. The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.
Thomas Parker Boyd
#68. a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.
Verghese Kurien
#70. The essential achievement of the will is to attend to one object and hold it clear and strong before the mind, letting all others-its rivals for attention and subsequent action-fade away like starlight swamped by the radiance of the Sun.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#71. The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
#72. For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.
Wes Fesler
#73. Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Rodolfo Costa
#74. Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.
Rickson Gracie
#75. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
#76. Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Ezra Taft Benson
#77. I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#79. Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie Norton
#80. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
Ernest Hemingway,
#81. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
John Hume
#83. He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a bubble of overaffection, in a sad incubator of phony achievement.
Jess Walter
#84. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
W. Edwards Deming
#85. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...
Allan Kaprow
#86. Where did you find the whipped cream?" he asked. "You had milk, I had science," said Jack. "It's amazing how much of culinary achievement can be summarized by that sentence. Cheese making, for example. The perfect intersection of milk, science, and foolish disregard for the laws of nature.
Seanan McGuire
#87. It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
James Henry Breasted
#88. Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.
J.K. Rowling
#89. Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.
Robert Cheeke
#90. There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
Richard M. Weaver
#92. The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.
Kamal Ravikant
#93. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J.G. Holland
#94. They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.
David Brooks
#96. Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Nora Ephron
#98. Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.
Patrick Dixon
#99. The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before.. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of ... previously unrelated forms of reference or universes of discourse, whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.
Arthur Koestler
#100. Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.
Rick Warren
