Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
