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Success Quotes


"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."


"Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality."


"Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life."


"There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there."


"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."


"But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen."


"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."


"Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another."


"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."


"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond."


"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing."


"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."


"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."


"The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena."


"A good title is the title of a successful book."


"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."


"I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?"


"I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful."


"There is little success where there is little laughter."


"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."


"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."


"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."


"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."


"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."


"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."


"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."


"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."


"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."


"If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring."


"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
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