Bill Gates Quotes
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
Fabrizio Moreira
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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.
Barack Obama
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
Imogen Cunningham
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
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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
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
Rachel Joyce
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse
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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.
Harold Rosenberg
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
Walter Cronkite
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal Richelieu
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.
Olivier Megaton
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I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
Vanessa Carlton
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
Abby Wambach
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It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
Beth Brooke
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I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.
Chad VanGaalen
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Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
Narendra Modi
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Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.
Afrika Bambaataa
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The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.
Emily Kuroda
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates