Sentence examples for idea of achievements from inspiring English sources

Next came the Xbox 360, the dominant online multiplayer console of its era, introducing the idea of achievements and a gamer score mechanic that encouraged players to get the absolute most out of every title they purchased.

Accomplishment — doing something well — is a big deal, particularly in a world (and town) driven by a false idea of achievement, grabbing the brass ring with nothing to show for it but brassiness.

There's a segment of the population, particularly among PC gamers, who are usually more erudite, that simply abhor the idea of Achievement Points, and feel that Games for Windows Live is a meaningless intrusion.

While job security is crucial to the western Germans' idea of achievement and as a foundation for family formation in a sequential pattern, in eastern Germany, job security is only one of the parallel paths in one's life course and thus investments in one's job and private life are conducted in parallel.

Failing that, I'd at least have a nice neat list of literary characters, divided by gender and ranked by age (which I concede may not be everyone's idea of an achievement).

Buddy is a man whose idea of intellectual achievement is finding a new simile for female genitalia, whose motto for life is 'Never jack off a dog' (he'll tell you the story if you ask), who thinks that 'Christmas is always a ratfuck' and whose favourite practical joke involved putting his wife's ashes in a pepper grinder and inviting his friends round for dinner.

A career based on an idea of individual achievement should rightfully be destroyed by an individual failing.

Three sorts of arguments have been leveled against this idea of focusing on achievement.

To give you some idea of what an achievement that is, the US has 10,000 PhDs.

But among them, I think, is a kind of relief at the idea of distinction independent of achievement.

While I had known some details of his work (his explanations were brief), I had no idea of his range of achievement -- that he holds more than 30 patents, for example.