Success Quotes
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	The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.   
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	To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.   
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	There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.   
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	I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.   
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	After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.   
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	We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.   
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	Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.   
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	Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.   
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	It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.   
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	I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.   
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	People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.   
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	Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.   
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	Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.   
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	Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.   
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	I always wanted to retire a Piston anyway. That's where I stayed the longest and had most of my success. I always wanted to be remembered as a Piston.   
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	As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.   
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	Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.   
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	What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.   
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	Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.   
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	The American dream tells you that you'll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.   
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	You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either   
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	In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation.   
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	Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.   
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	We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					