Thomas Dewar Quotes
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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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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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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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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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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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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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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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
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Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
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I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
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Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.
