The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.
Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
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.
I believe my success is what I'm going to achieve today and tomorrow not what I did yesterday.
Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also, by making the small things we do great.
Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.
I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
