Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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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.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
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Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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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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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
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There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.
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A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
