Arnold H. Glasow Quotes
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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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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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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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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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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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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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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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
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The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal.
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Once you hit 40, being in a band - a committee voting constantly on what you're going to be doing next month - it's more of a challenge. And when you have a kid as well.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
