Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.
