Attain Quotes

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.