Andre Benjamin Quotes
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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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.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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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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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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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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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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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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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
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We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we also need creative journalists and media workers.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
