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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.