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Success Quotes
"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."
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"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
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"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."
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"That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale."
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
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"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
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"It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards."
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"A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that."
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"To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything."
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"It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do."
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"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
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"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."
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"Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."
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"Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do.The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you."
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"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
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"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His."
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"Most people are fine with fine and okay with okay. If you want to be the best you can be, make sure you're not."
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"The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success."
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"There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing."
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"It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour."
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"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
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"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
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"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
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"If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?"
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"The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television."
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"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did."
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"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
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"I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference."
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"If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online."
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"Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help."
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"Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
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"Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful."
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"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."
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"A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security."
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"Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action."
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"We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now."
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