Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Success
  • Wind
  • Shadow

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • American
  • Death
  • Success

• In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Hollywood

• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Success
  • Like
  • Couple

• If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Help
  • Success

• Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

  

  Rain
  • Different
  • American
  • Success

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Best
  • Effort

• I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Success

• People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Mind
  • Success

• The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Women
  • Pretty

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Audience

• Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Time

• Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Stop
  • Cold

• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Success
  • Ambiguity
  • Imposter