Famous quotes containing the word achievement:
“Japanese mothers credit effort as the key determinant of a childs achievement in school, while American mothers name ability as the more important factor.”
—Perry Garfinkel (20th century)
“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741966)
“What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature doesthat is, fill us with wonderment.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
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