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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

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.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy to accomplish our will.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

People with clear written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Once you have mastered time you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

All of us are born for a reason but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.