Being Successful Quotes - Page 36

• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

  Pat Summitt

  Responsibility, Successful, Want

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.32, Crown Business

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• The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

  Eric Thomas

  Successful, Reason Why, Procrastinating

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• I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

  Hasso Plattner

  Believe, Successful, Generations

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• I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

  Taylor Swift

  Successful

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• India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Successful, Bihar

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• I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

  Kristen Stewart

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

  Behdad Sami

  Successful, Determined, Influence

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• Running more doesn't do you any good. You've got to be successful more.

  Johnny Oates

  Running, Successful

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• I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Successful, Thinking

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Successful, People

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• The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.

  Barbara Cochran

  Leadership, Athlete, Successful

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• I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Successful, Games

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• Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

  Robin Cousins

  Athlete, Successful, Light

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Successful, Player

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". May 21, 2009.

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• After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

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• The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Successful, Feet

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Kids, Successful

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• Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

  Joe Sakic

  Travel, Commitment, Successful

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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