Accomplished Quotes

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.