Famous Quotes & Sayings

On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend high quality preschool, mothers and infants are by some measures healthier than children in other parts of the country, and our adolescents are less likely to drop out of school or be without a job or schooling in their teen and young adult years.

Not many teams have done what we have. This shows what an achievement it is.

It's such a monumental achievement. Jones really set what became the standard for all golfers.

Eight out of the 10 times we've gone, we've finished in the top five. It's become the No. 1 accomplishment of our program.

Each of our core brand families contributed to this record achievement. In particular, Bud Light continued its outstanding sales performance, delivering its eighth consecutive year of double-digit growth.

New York's long-term progress in improving he achievement of students overall, especially our neediest students, is encouraging, ... But we obviously have far to go and will have to keep working relentlessly to help more students succeed.

It was a great accomplishment. It was my last year and I guess it's like leaving your mark in high school, so I was pretty proud of it.

It was a great accomplishment for everyone. This is a starting point for next year. The seniors started it. We want it to be an expectation year in and year out for Johnston basketball.

It was a great personal achievement for me, but I'm glad that we got the win. It will hopefully give this program some momentum heading into next year.

Alan Curbishley

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. It was a night for the fans, but I would swap it for a home win in the league.

Zig Ziglar

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

It's very rewarding for them. It gives them a sense of accomplishment. There's nothing like seeing their faces light up.

Paul Jewell

It's wonderful really. We wanted to reach 40 points after 38 games, to get it after 27 is a tremendous achievement but we won't be resting on our laurels.

E. B. White

I view that as a tremendous achievement and testimony that the rugby authorities are doing a job in that respect. Apart from broadening our base of young players, we are currently setting the pace at under-19 and under-21 (international) level ? something which we can be extremely proud of.

Andriy Shevchenko

It will be hard for us and it will be an achievement just to get out of the group stages and through to the quarterfinals, but I am personally dreaming of reaching the final!

Bing Gordon

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

To develop an investigational test to screen blood, tissue and organ donors, and to get this test in blood banks throughout the country, and then licensed this quickly is a remarkable achievement for public health and patient safety.

Henry Petroski

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

We will make sure he gets his Lifetime Achievement Award, no matter how hard it is to track him down.

We will make our system of checks more robust to ensure achievement of the target truly reflects the experience of patients across the country.

Ahmed Zewail

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

To be able to finish your career either first or second in the world would be a pretty remarkable achievement.

Confucius

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Dallas Willard

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Curtis Martin

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

The opposition sought to exploit the achievements of the upheaval, so it brokered a deal in Paris in mid-April, which allowed the Lebanese-Syrian police regime to buy time.

Ben Crenshaw

There is nothing like it. You cannot imagine what it's like. It's a personal achievement and you feel like you've gotten through something very difficult.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

We've never seen anything this before. This is an unprecedented achievement.

To advance as a sophomore is a tremendous accomplishment.

Gabe Kapler

This team has done something the past two days that should go down in history as an incredible accomplishment. And what David Ortiz has done is miraculous. He's carried us on his shoulders.