Success Quotes
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I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
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I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
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Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
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You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.
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I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
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The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.
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Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.
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Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
