#achieve

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#because #beings #believe #enlightenment #flaws

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway? ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#choice #death #meeting-people #people #pleasure

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieves #between #careers #consistently #distance

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#agents #believe #better #better world #care

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#appease #balance #business #career #i

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#freedom #glorious #human #never #reign

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #destiny #leadership #our #preparing

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#begins #clear #clear vision #day #did

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith. ↗

— James P. Moran

#anyone #attempt #community #explanation #faith

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67] ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#art #art