Success Quotes
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
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Failure is a part of success.
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I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
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The true success is the person who invented himself.
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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
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Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
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In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
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Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
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I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
