Hank Aaron Quotes
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
