Successful Quotes
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
Zac Brown Band
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
William Osler
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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
William Arthur Ward
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There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
Mahershala Ali
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden
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To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.
Mark Frauenfelder
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
Xavier Niel
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
Walter Russell Mead
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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
Norman Vincent Peale
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
Adam Carolla
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
Barry Unsworth
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To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.
Walt Disney
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
Diana Ross
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Being successful is kind of dull.
Nolan Bushnell
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It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.
Christopher Meledandri
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“She’s a queen and a mother and it’s a mother’s job to be scary,” said Wish. “Well she’s very successful at her job,” shivered Bodkin.
Cressida Cowell
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
Park Chan-wook
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The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.
Paul Williams The Temptations
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine