"What really matters for success, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests".
Blinkered views of an open race Even the website of the Man Booker International Prize bangs on about the "surprising" selection of 10 finalists - each chosen for career-long achievement - just announced for the biennial award.
By Mr. Davis's calculations, Bradman led the order of career-long achievement with a 4.4 rating, followed by soccer's Pelé (3.7), baseball's Ty Cobb (3.6), golf's Jack Nicklaus (3.5), basketball's Michael Jordan (3.4) and football's Joe Montana (3.1).
His successes on the PGA Tour and specifically in the Masters and Open Championship are legendary, and sure, he has a drink named after him, but you probably already know that I'm talking about Arnie's decades-long achievement as a warm and generous man who loved people as much as much as he loved the game.
Tsingtao's century-long achievements are celebrated in a company museum, full of artefacts and oddities.
Like some kind of highbrow tourist art, these pieces evoke prehistoric pottery in a way that seems exploitive, slick and sentimental, adjectives not usually associated, at least in my mind, with the plain poetry of Mr. Long's achievement.
He was in town to play his first show in New York City in 2013 a long overdue achievement, considering that he is widely acknowledged as the originator of footwork, a hyper-kinetic, sample-based genre that soundtracks the dance troupes of Chicago.
"Platinum Rows" is this album's long-form achievement, the stone that will surely cause the longest ripple.
The test of the greatness of a government must surely be how long its achievements last.
Banville did Ireland proud last week simply because he didn't seen any national pride in his long-deserved achievement.
