Accomplishing Things Quotes

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things. ~ Allen Drury

We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of relating to what's before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will. ~ Mark Nepo

There are many different parts to ourselves, and to become a woman of knowledge, you must know all the parts. There is a part of you that is actually just your vitality, your life force. Get to know the part of yourself that is just being or just a quality of living in your life force . . .

And as there is a part of you likes to just be, there is a part of you that likes to do things. Perhaps the part of you that is always accomplishing things has taken over the part that just likes to relax in silence, maybe even to the point where the part of you that likes to just "be" is overshadowed. Is that possible? ~ Lynn V. Andrews

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I surprise myself all the time by doing and accomplishing things I had never thought possible. ~ Connor Franta

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something. ~ Reid Hoffman

- Family

Tell me about your family.
Does everyone live in the area?
What do you like best about being a father/mother/son/aunt, etc.?

-Occupation

What got you into your current job?
How did you come up with that idea?
What are some of the toughest challenges in your job?
If you could change one thing about your job, what would it be?
How has the Internet impacted your business/industry?

- Recreation

What do you do for fitness?
What kinds of things does your family do for fun?
How do you spend your leisure time?
What's been your favorite vacation?

- Miscellaneous
Have you seen any good movies lately?
What do you think about - - - - - [news event]?
Are you reading anything you really enjoy? ~ Debra Fine

I suppose we were worn down and shivering. Three a.m. is a mean spirited hour. I suppose we were drenched, with the cold hose water trickling in at our collars and settling down at the tail of our shirts. Without doubt the heavy brass couplings felt moulded from metal-ice. Probably the open roar of the pumps drowned the petulant buzz of the raiders above, and certainly the ubiquitous fire-glow made an orange stage-set of the streets. Black water would have puddled the city alleys and I suppose our hands and faces were black as the water. Black with hacking about among the burnt-up rafters. These things were an every-night nonentity. They happened and they were not forgotten because they were not even remembered. ~ William Sansom

Bonnie persuaded me to focus on the good, just for today: tomorrow I can call back and we will wallow in the total awfulness of Amy's behavior, which will surely lead to permanent estrangement and dead bodies. Just for today, I was supposed to try to remember three things: The baby is not falling off the earth, or headed to Afghanistan. So many things are going well: Everyone has good health. Jax is perfect. Even though I have acid and sewage and grippage in my stomach, which I have had many times before and will have many times again, I can build faith muscles by bearing my feelings of misery and powerlessness - a kind of Nautilus. Rumi said that through love, all pain would turn to medicine. But he never met my family. Or me. ~ Anne Lamott

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions ~ Wendy Carlos

Saying and doing are two things. ~ Matthew Henry

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

Many Of Them Have Things
What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit ~ Stuart Varney

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create. ~ Mike Murdock

We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are. ~ Francis Chan

You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things."
He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it. ~ Richelle Mead

His past, his fears, what was done to him, what he has done to himself - they are subjects that can only be discussed in tongues he doesn't speak: Farsi, Urdu, Mandarin, Portuguese. Once, he tried to write some things down, thinking that it might be easier, but it wasn't - he is unclear how to explain himself to himself. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. ~ Jodie Foster

The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?" ~ John Vanderslice

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. ~ Renee Fleming

Yes, it's good to be able to block things out. But maybe the terrible images persist for a reason: to tell the truth. Which is a terrible and terribly important thing. ~ Margaret Ajemian Ahnert

Corporations are great and appalling things. They take you and shape you in nearly nothing flat, twist and swivel you. And they do it without overt persuasion, they do it with smiles and nods, a collective inflection of the voice. You stand at the head of a corridor and by the time you walk to the far end you have adopted the comprehensive philosophy of the firm, the Weltanschauung. I use this grave and layered word because somewhere in its depths there is a whisper of mystical contemplation that seems totally appropriate to the subject of waste. ~ Don DeLillo

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken. ~ Dashiell Hammett

Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden ~ Anne Rice

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. ~ Vernor Vinge

In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened. ~ Rob Bell

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses. ~ Jane Campion

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business. ~ Dilip Shanghvi

Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever. ~ Haruki Murakami

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen. ~ Jan Eliasson

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things. ~ Jan Carlzon

The thought of one day not thinking of him at all is just too much for me. It feels like a betrayal to ever hope for such things. ~Livvie ~ C.J. Roberts

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family. ~ Howard Schultz

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

That looks feasible. What do you want for lunch? Cake, sandwiches, fruit, and coffee will be all that is necessary, I suppose?"
"Oh, dear, no! We must have cold tongue and chicken, French chocolate and ice cream, besides. The girls are used to such things, and I want my lunch to be proper and elegant, though I do work for my living. ~ Louisa May Alcott

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things. ~ Tom DeLonge

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me. ~ Joe Biden

These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments. ~ Fennel Hudson

We put words between ourselves and things. ~ Thomas Merton

It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one must know is the most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not so easy and it is not for the most part very fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of luck. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My three had these things in common. They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious. ~ John Steinbeck

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting ... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here. ~ Jonathan Brown

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied. ~ Michael Faraday

In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life ~ Ibn Arabi

He'll have to get used to things being hard on him,' said Diana, her expression flinty. 'He's a Shadowhunter now. ~ Cassandra Clare

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded. ~ Anne Fadiman

What tormented Ivan Ilyich most," Tolstoy writes, "was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result." Ivan Ilyich has flashes of hope that maybe things will turn around, but as he grows weaker and more emaciated he knows what is happening. He lives in mounting anguish and fear of death. But death is not a subject that his doctors, friends, or family can countenance. That is what causes him his most profound pain. ~ Atul Gawande

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart. ~ Wayne Dyer

What accounts for Luther's behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was lacking. ~ R.C. Sproul

We're all misfits here," he says, almost proudly. "That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique. ~ Terri Windling