Greatness is achieving something unimaginable and doing that feat with ease
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Ignore anything that distracts you from achieving your ambitious plans for doing something amazing.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
PIERCE BROSNAN There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
SHMULEY BOTEACH Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watchi...
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Together, life can bloom into something unimaginable!
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffe...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL The most perfect thing about achieving something very difficult is to give other people this provoca...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" tha...
PANDORA POIKILOS (Myrick) is something else and he?s been doing that all year.
GARFIELD YUILLE He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horro...
TERRY PRATCHETT Smile- A good exercise for facial muscles and something that helps to face big challenges with ease.
REKHA MENON We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee.
TRUMAN CAPOTE There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential m...
BUCK RODGERS I think that?s a lot of it. The pace that Lee plays at, it?s something that you have to live to get ...
CHAD EDWARDS I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in sch...
SANFORD I. WEILL Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
SIR WILFRED GRENFELL Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
WILFRED GRENFELL With much sweat greatness is achieved
DANIEL OKE In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must b...
BARACK OBAMA Defeat is only The (De) Feat with open minds.
ANUJ SOMANY 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON You don't want to waste knocking the cup holders out, certainly not in the next round. We put so muc...
SAM ALLARDYCE It is no mean feat to come second to a player like that. It's not easy for me to say something like ...
IAN WRIGHT I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost un...
GARY HAMEL When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that conve...
RONY ABOVITZ For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's be...
DIANA NYAD Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves abo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I cor...
JOIE LEE There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ...
CLAY SHIRKY We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the Amer...
STACEY DASH In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thr...
OLYMPIA SNOWE when potential greatness meets with actual greatness, the future is inspired with hope.
CHIDI PROSPER AGBUGBA Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.
CHARLES OSGOOD It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would muc...
TERRY PRATCHETT There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.
DAVE CHAPPELLE Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Best feeling is achieving something hard to get it, in simple way.
OMAR H. ABUAISHA Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is ...
JONATHAN IVE I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!
ASTRO It's been an absolute rollercoaster. The things I've done, I didn't even dream of doing ...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still ...
JASON AARON We are drawn to greatness because there's something about the greatness in others that speaks to us ...
DAMILOLA OLUWATOYINBO Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the...
ROBERT J. SHILLER (Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voic...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatn...
RAFAEL CRUZ Lee is not with a club right now and is spending time with us.
PAUL WILKINSON If we work with complete faith in something, the entire universe will support us in achieving same.
ARVIND MEHTA Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
DAVID NAUGHTON All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind ...
ROBERT FROST If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
NILE RODGERS There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with ...
KARA WALKER You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully ba...
RAM SHRIRAM In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All Th...
PETER ACKROYD Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
FRANK HERBERT Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
P. J. O'ROURKE Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,<...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Is it better to be thought normal and be forgotten for achieving average things, or thought insane a...
NIKKI SWEET Greatness is synonymous with passion
SUNDAY ADELAJA Being at Peace means you are at ease - it is a being not a doing.
ANIL GUPTA When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doi...
DONNY OSMOND You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Usability is not only about ease of use but also about bringing something meaningful, having an obje...
MARCUS ÖSTERBERG The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an em...
STELLA YOUNG To have to wait four or five days is unimaginable. It makes you sick. But this is something that is ...
SAUL BERMAN Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle w...
ALESSIA CARA Completing a day without any problems is itself a success of the day. And achieving something on tha...
KOWSALAPATHY That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty....
DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".
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DEYTH BANGER To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump int...
RUPERT EVERETT Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Do...
CONAN O'BRIEN It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
USAIN BOLT It was really exciting. Nothing feels better than achieving something that you worked really hard fo...
ELISE BRONZO Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.
MENSAH OTEH "Knowledge is power and with it comes the possibility of achieving grandeur.
HEIDI DEL CARMEN CHICO Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? O...
DAN PEARCE Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
VERNE TROYER America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that...
GEORGE KAISER My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing."...
ROBERT LYNN ASPRIN America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments...
JOHN W. GARDNER It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourse...
DREW CAREY Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
JOHN STEINBECK Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE