Nolan Ryan (Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr.) Quotes
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
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Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
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'I took care of the depth of my relationship with God and He took care of the breadth of my success.'
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?
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I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.
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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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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.