Achievement used in a sentence

Achievement in a sentence as a noun

He had more and more success but he got sucked into chasing ambition and achievement. He never eased up or stepped back.

With achievement I feel like you have an internal zero point that you measure from. But the zero has a dangerous tendency to climb.

Start by deciding what you want to do, and pick something that will take a while as early goal achievement has its own problems.

That said, productivity/achievement might be a bit overrated. Will your life be better and will you be happier when you achieve your goal?

She was the perfect mother for an introverted, achievement-oriented nerd trying to find his way in the world. Thanks for letting me share.

That is exactly the sort of achievement that impresses us, actually. For example, Qasar Younis started life in a house with dirt floors in a village in Pakistan.

It's an absolutely stunning achievement to create a web-site that's even more offensively intrusive than Facebook. I hope Google are proud.

They hire salespeople that have "consistently exceeded quota" and "increased customer spend by x" or some other sales achievement. That's great, dude, but you sold ******* vacuum cleaners.

Nice sentiment that makes all us awkward people feel better but still wrong and strangely reminds me of America's obsession with self-esteem over real achievement. I'm a ******* weirdo.

Doctorate work is supposed to be difficult, and that's part of why it is the pinnacle of academic achievement. The only responsible course of action they could have taken was to strip him of his credentials.

That is a profound achievement, but those responsible for such a radical change aren't generally the type to sit idly by on the backs of their previous accomplishments. They want to do bigger and better things with Github.

However, it's an impressive achievement regardless. The metric that doesn't lie, from a performance point of view, is the mass fraction of the rocket - that is the fraction of the all-up, fuelled-up mass of the rocket on the pad that makes it into orbit.

If society were a game of Civilization, I'd be putting all of my resource points towards the "Self driving cars" achievement. Of course the insurance companies, car manufacturers, oil companies, etc.

Our community stresses the importance of achievement, success, and technology so much that it's easy to forget what's really most important: each other. Sometimes it takes terrible news like this to jerk us back to that reality.

That all of America has not rallied behind Musk and Tesla as the most important movement and achievement in the last 100 years of human history absolutely blows my mind. Not only do we not recognize his goals or his achievements, we actively try and bring him down and **** on his accomplishments.

I got 5 awards from the firm in 3 years and a nomination for a lifetime achievement award and all I was doing was hacking up some one-off Perl scripts to crunch some data! I was much more familiar with C++ and Java, and I simply hadn't thought about how much I was accomplishing and with such little effort.

Is it not your job as an educator to make sure those who put in the most effort and demonstrate the highest level of achievement are awarded grades accordingly? Is it not your job to make sure the playing field is level, especially at a school where there is such a high pressure to do well as a result of a strict grading curve policy?

School sports, especially the big, spectator friendly, fast-twitch muscle oriented sports of football, basketball, and baseball, send a big message to the student body: Athletic achievement is something that should be celebrated by all students, to the degree that it should be celebrated by the peers of the students on the field/court. As if a kid on the bleachers life has been improved because a fellow student succeeded in putting a ball through a metal ring. Academic achievement is never glorified in this way.

Even in the period leading up to the 1960s, the EB was a staple in most every western home where parents valued education and academic achievement for their kids. Whole hordes of door-to-door salesmen supported their families very comfortably just by selling this particular product. So, yes, the EB became kind of laughable with its clumsy marketing efforts and awkward efforts to adapt to modern technology in the past couple of decades, but be kind to its memory. It was one of the great attempts in all history to try to do what many dream of doing today through the internet and the advantages of the digital age: limited by the resources of that day, for sure, but an amazing achievement nonetheless.