Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
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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 is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.
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Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic - and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.
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Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
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I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
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It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
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I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.
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I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
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It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.
