Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.Newell Dwight Hillis
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Eamon de Valera -
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
Randeep Hooda -
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.
Zhang Ziyi -
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.
Harold Rosenberg -
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.
Eckhart Tolle
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
Randeep Hooda -
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.
Eckhart Tolle -
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.
Zalmay Khalilzad -
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.
Dan Brown
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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.
J. B. Morton -
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.
Walt Handelsman -
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.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.
Wallace Stevens -
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
Kevin Bacon -
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
Aaron McGruder -
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
Cab Calloway -
The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer -
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.
Cat Deeley -
Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
Kenneth Langone -
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell Dwight Hillis