Successful Quotes
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Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."
Whitney Otto
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It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
Rick Baker
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
Katharine Hepburn
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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.
H. G. Wells
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
Brian Tracy
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To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
Aristotle Onassis
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William Hurt
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Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's Kessler insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
Paul Banks
Interpol
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It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.
James Sinegal
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We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.
Barack Obama
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
Brian Tracy
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So many refugees want to find their feet in Germany and do something in Germany. We should take up and support this drive, then integration will be successful.
Ursula von der Leyen
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Thomas A. Edison
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Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.
Kiefer Sutherland
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To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
Walter Matthau
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Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.
Kate Fox
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People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.
Dayna Devon
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It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.
Oswald Chambers