Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.
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It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
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You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
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I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
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When it comes to building your business and developing a powerful network, you'll want to develop a reputation as someone who highlights others. Not only does this give credit where credit is due, it also communicates that you're secure with your success and have the ability to promote others in your industry.
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To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
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Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.
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I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.
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If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
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The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
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My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.
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Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.
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If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.
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I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
