Success Quotes
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While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
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My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.
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I had all this success and made all this money, but I didn't have anyone to share it with.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
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I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.
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Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.
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Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.
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Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.
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I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
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Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
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Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
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In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
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Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
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If one has good faith, you can unlock the secrets of scripture, and in unlocking the secrets of scripture, you have access to everything God wants you to have. Ministers of megachurches become examples of the truth of that claim, because they're well paid, living in wonderful homes, driving very nice cars, dressed well. They are doing well, so if you do this, you too can have success.
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
