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Success Quotes
"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
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"The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up."
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"No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate."
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"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."
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"When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?"
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"Success is across the roaring river, the brave shall cross it."
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"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
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"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"
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"No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life."
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"With your goal you make the one."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
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"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."
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"I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock."
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"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."
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"Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift."
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"Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure."
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"Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects."
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"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."
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"Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people."
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"Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results."
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"As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement."
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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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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."
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"As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further."
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"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success."
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"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
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"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."
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"To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed."
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"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
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"The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia."
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"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."
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