Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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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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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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Democrats hate success.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.
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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
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Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
