Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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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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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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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
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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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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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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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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.
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The satisfaction you feel from your own success pales in comparison to the despair you feel from this person's personal triumphs, even if those triumphs are completely unrelated to your life.
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
