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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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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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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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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If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
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Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
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I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
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A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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I didn't take all the films that were offered, just those with dignity.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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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.
