Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. – Eric Butterworth
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. – Napoleon Hill
By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran – the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics. – Mike Pompeo
Over time, I’ve come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I’ve developed a much more team-based approach. There’s the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn’t have to take the credit for what was achieved. – Melanne Verveer
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check. – M. C. Escher
Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit. – Ethan Zuckerman
I’m different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN… I will not do that. I want to achieve something else. – Marat Safin
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. – Mary Douglas
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. – Noam Chomsky
What I was going for in the first two albums I didn’t necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a ‘quickie’ sort of ‘Let’s just get it over with!’ But the kind of music I make, there’s a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it. – Norah Jones
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. – Daniel J. Boorstin
I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile. – Frederick Sanger
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’ – Dave Barry
I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did. – Elena Delle Donne
Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, there’s this energy in the city that is just electrifying and inspiring. – Daniel Humm
When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It’s a great feeling when that happens. – Madeline Zima
Look at my success. I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement. – Mo Farah
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. – Elsa Peretti
I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve. – Gordon Ramsay
There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results. – Masatoshi Koshiba
I don’t even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get. – David Gilmour