George Gipps Quotes

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

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• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moment
  • Difficulties
  • Dealt

• I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Responsibility
  • Successful

• Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Successful

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Work
  • Successful
  • Stars

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Most

• It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Fame

• Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Successful

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Successful

• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Black
  • Successful

• For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Tree
  • Golf
  • Impression

• I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • She
  • Persons

• The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • May
  • Free
  • Alone

• I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

  

  George Gipps
  • Successful
  • Secret
  • Difficulties