Quotes About Quiet Achievers

#1. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#2. ]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray

Sappho

#3. Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-"
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Rick Riordan

#4. There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Charles Kuralt

#5. I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

Bethany Hamilton

#6. I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

Skrillex

#7. As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

Chris Alexander

#8. A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Brian Tracy

#9. The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman Cousins

#10. Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#11. I will not feel, I will not
feel, until
I have to

Norman MacCaig

#12. Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Muhammad Iqbal

#14. The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names.

John Stuart Mill

#15. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.