Joseph Jacobs Quotes
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Quotes to Explore
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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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.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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.
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When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.
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Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
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I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
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You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'
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I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
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I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.
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We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.
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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
