Success Quotes
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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
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Other than my family and my close friends, there's nothing I love more than owning the team and doing everything I can to make it a success. That's how I live. That is me.
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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
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I've discovered over the years that being subject to both the adoration and the vilification actually makes me more disciplined. It makes me understand that it's the idea of writing a great book that propels me now, whereas it used to be the idea of success.
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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
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If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.
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Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
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There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
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All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.
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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded in the mission they set out to accomplish - and that is to make good cinema. If we feel that we have achieved that as a team, then we have all been successful.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
