success
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘success’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It’s nice, being brought up with no money at all. It’s just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.” -Bode Miller
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“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.” -Mark Skousen
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“Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain’s success.” -Charles Kennedy
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“Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.” -Diane Lane
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“The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.” -George Henry Lewes
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“I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who’ve had success, to prove to audiences that you don’t have to be a fool to become successful.” -NeNe Leakes
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“I think that everything you do helps you to write if you’re a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don’t experience either one of those, you’re being deprived of something.” -Shelby Foote
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“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.” -Roger Staubach
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“It’s not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.” -Roger Goodell
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“Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.” -Rickey Henderson
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“You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren’t going right.” -Linda Evans
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“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.” -Michael Korda
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“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.” -P. G. Wodehouse
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“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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“I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.” -Andy Murray
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“I don’t like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I’m pleased with Pete’s success but I don’t like what they’ve done to it.” -Roger Daltrey
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“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I’d been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.” -Lisa Loeb
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“If you come into success too soon, you’ll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you’ll be happier with yourself in the end.” -Lucinda Williams
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“In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.” -Reed Hastings
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“I’m a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don’t leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.” -Gail Porter
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“I’m extremely ambitious. I don’t know why people are afraid to say that. I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.” -Jada Pinkett Smith
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“Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn’t go hand-in-hand with financial success.” -Mary Lou Retton
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“I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.” -Victor Cruz
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“I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They’ve made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something…
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“It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.” -Ben Bernanke
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“The secret of my success is my hairspray.” -Richard Gere
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“Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing – once you’ve achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?” -Arabella Weir
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“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.” -Keith Henson
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“Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I’ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.” -R. Kelly
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“Other people’s success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.” -Nicholas Hoult
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“I’ve always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.” -Eva Gabor
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“Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.” -Harold Ramis
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“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.” -Robert Heller
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“I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up…
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“I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.” -Bethenny Frankel
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“Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause.” -Phyllis McGinley
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“Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.” -Ludwig Quidde
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“I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you’re going to be when you’re there.” -Wiz Khalifa
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“Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.” -Dave Matthews
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“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around ’92 and ’96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.” -Matthew Sweet
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“I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.” -Hakeem Olajuwon
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“I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.” -Jeffrey Archer
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“At this point, I can’t say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.” -Christy Romano
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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.” -John Madden
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“Everyone applauds each other’s success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.” -Robert Rodriguez
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“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.” -Graham Norton
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“I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was – because I had graphic instances of it – handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, ‘I don’t want Jean-Luc Picard in…
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“I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they’ve been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.” -Scott Walker
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“I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.” -David Schwimmer
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“If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.” -Salman Khan
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“For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.” -Joan Chen
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“For me, I don’t feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.” -Emmanuelle Beart
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“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother’s push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.” -Sam Donaldson
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“If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.” -John James Audubon
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“I’ve always been too hard on myself to behave like I’ve arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I’ve had. I’ve always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, ‘That’s nice but I’m supposed to go there!’” -Nicole Scherzinger
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“Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.” -Alex Noble
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“For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.” -John J. Sweeney
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“We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.” -Katherine Dunham
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“It’s hard for children’s authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.” -R. L. Stine
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“Success is what you do with your ability. It’s how you use your talent.” -George Allen, Sr.
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“Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female’s success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.” -Mika Brzezinski
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“Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.” -Elias Canetti
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“We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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“You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.” -Eva Green
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“I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.” -Kat Dennings
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“We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.” -Derek Jeter
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“There are so few women in general who aren’t completely threatened and confused by other women’s success. It’s very disappointing.” -Sandra Bernhard
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“I don’t understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don’t care to.” -Frank Luntz
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“You always pass failure on your way to success.” -Mickey Rooney
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“There’s nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.” -Wilbur Smith
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“The FHA’s success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation’s mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.” -Mark Zandi
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“Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.” -Bernie Mac
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“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.” -Ian Botham
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“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation’s economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.” -Tim Holden
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“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.” -Jean Genet
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“All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.” -Kevin Smith
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“Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.” -Marlon Wayans
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“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.” -Kiana Tom
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“I’ve had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.” -Paula Radcliffe
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“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.” -Jeff Goodell
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“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” -Walter Pater
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“For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It’s so ridiculous to me.” -Kristen Wiig
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“The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.” -Vicente Fox
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“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.” -Ethel Waters
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“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.” -Chuck Norris
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“My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn’t go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.” -John Legend
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“There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.” -Carl Lewis
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“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.” -Eugenio Montale
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“I’d rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that’s it. Hopefully that’s it.” -Idris Elba
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“Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we’re told we can do everything – you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.” -Cat Deeley
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“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.” -Knute Rockne
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“I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.” -Steve Coogan
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“The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.” -Natalie Imbruglia
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“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.” -Mikhail Lermontov
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“I don’t think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.” -Kirk Hammett
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“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it’s just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.” -Matthew Perry
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“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.” -James D. Watson
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“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.” -Sparky Anderson
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“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.” -Sarah Caldwell
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“We were called The Toilets originally – we were flushed with success.” -Mike Peters
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“Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.” -Michael Flatley
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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…
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“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” -Christopher Reeve
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“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It’s fertiliser, it’s like living fertiliser, because you’re forced on yourself.” -Rupert Everett
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“Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.” -Rita Dove
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“Everyone takes pause at 40. It’s the age you have to assess everything in your life. It’s the fictitious marker that’s always coming up when you’re young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.” -Paul Feig
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“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” -Paul Getty
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“Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.” -Leon Panetta
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“I’m in the studio 24 hours a day. It’s true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.” -Puff Daddy
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“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.” -Arthur Helps
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“One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.” -Isabelle Adjani
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“It’s both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.” -Amy Tan
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“I consider ‘Dr. Horrible’ a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else’s hands and changing the world.” -Nathan Fillion
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“That’s the key to success, isn’t it? It has to be fun.” -Monica Seles
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“There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.” -Jodi Picoult
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“I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.” -Alan Shepard
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“I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.” -Joe Nichols
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“If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that’s religious and they’re going to come see you when you’re in that town, once your radio success is gone and you’re not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play…
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“A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.” -Alec Waugh
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“Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come – and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.” -Charles Schumer
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“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.” -Anne Rice
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“The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.” -Arthur Henderson
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“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” -Edward B. Butler
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“It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.” -Josh Radnor
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“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” -Nicki Minaj
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“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.” -Claude M. Bristol
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“It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.” -Little Richard
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“I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” -T. D. Jakes
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“Look, if you ask a child, ‘Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,’ they’ll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it’s really important that children don’t feel their parents’ emotional lives depend on their success.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“My literary success meant nothing to me.” -Taylor Caldwell
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“Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.” -Anna Pavlova
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“With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers’ – not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.” -Donny Osmond
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“To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.” -Roger Moore
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“Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.” -Ben Jonson
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“I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.” -Sarah McLachlan
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“Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it’s about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.” -Taylor Kitsch
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“For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.” -Warren Farrell
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“The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.” -Bela Lugosi
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“Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.” -Alain de Botton
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“I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of ‘Dallas.’” -Larry Hagman
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“As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.” -Ann Romney
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“I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.” -Billy Sheehan
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“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one – in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.” -Walter Bagehot
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“The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori’s plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.” -Tony Kushner
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“I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.” -Damian Lewis
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“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.” -Dee Hock
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“I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.” -Jennifer Garner
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“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.” -John Hodgman
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“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.” -Jean Kerr
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“I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending they’re shifting.” -Brendan Fraser
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“A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It’s always something you’re thinking about unconsciously.” -Andy Samberg
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“I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate – it’s not a new philosophy I’m sharing – more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.” -Colin Farrell
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“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?” -Jessamyn West
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“My definition of success is control.” -Kenneth Branagh
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“If there is any secret to my success, I think it’s that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.” -Sidney Sheldon
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“The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.” -Tom Peters
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“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.” -Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.” -William Ellery Channing
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“Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.” -James Cash Penney
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“In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.” -James Dyson
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“I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.” -Rick Springfield
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“Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest…
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“There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.” -Paul Bryant
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“I’m not sure anybody’s ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I’ve seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don’t think I’ve had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.”…
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“Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.” -Damien Hirst
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“I want to make sure I don’t interfere with the success of that team next year. I don’t see any way I could go to practice like most of ’em do, and not hurt the team. I’d go nuts if I tried doing that.” -Bear Bryant
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