Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!
Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
Without failure there is no achievement.
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.