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Success Quotes
"I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material."
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"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
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"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."
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"And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think."
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"It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful."
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"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
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"I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine."
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"Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren."
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"Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq."
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"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."
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"Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim."
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"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."
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"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."
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"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
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"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."
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"You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo."
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"Success loves audacity."
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"This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed."
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"Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to see his opportunity, the heart to prompt to well-timed action, the nerve to consummate a perfect work. And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way."
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"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."
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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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"If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful."
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"Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable."
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"And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name."
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"The completion is always more difficult that the beginning."
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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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"Our government is certainly going to fall like a rope of sand if unsupported by the moral fabric of God's Word. The moral structure in our country grew from Judeo-Christian roots. When those values are applied, they produce moral fruits. But if that structure disappears, the moral sentiment that shapes our nation's goals will disappear with it."
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"Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus."
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"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."
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"The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation."
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"What is a great success? You haven't hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven't ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven't lied? That is a great success! You haven't deceived a person? That's a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!"
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"Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality."
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"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."
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"I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success."
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"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
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"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."
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