William Feather Quotes
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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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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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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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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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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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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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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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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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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He's not 100 percent. First it's the ankle, now it's leg cramps. He's been a little unlucky this year.
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He who controls the heartland controls the world.
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You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
