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• The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Opera, Firsts

  1925 Melodies and Memories.

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• Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Success, Real

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Making anything a success rests with people and commitment; strong will to always do the best, confidence in one another.. and absolute determination.

  Jørgen Roed

  Confidence, Strong, Determination

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• Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Accomplishment, Increase, Interest

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• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  K'naan

  Regret, Mistake, Passion

  "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most saints live to regret their career choice.

  Bob Stokes

  Inspirational, Regret, Work

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• Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

  Dennis Prager

  Kids, Careers, Soul

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• Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

  John P. Kotter

  Inspirational, Communication, Mean

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• In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Careers

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• Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Careers, Down And

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• What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

  Lee Iacocca

  Jobs, Business, Work

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• Write drunk; edit sober.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

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• Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

  Bill Maher

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.153, Rodale

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• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Space

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• There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Rejection, Suffering

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

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• It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

  Tony Robbins

  Careers, Stories, Strategy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Careers, Single Life

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• Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Crazy, Book

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

  Bob Black

  Teacher, Work, Stupid

  "The Abolition of Work". Book by Bob Black, 1985.

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• Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhist, Mean

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• Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Work, Writing, Reason

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• For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Character, Careers, Pretty Woman

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Careers, Riches, Painful

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• When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.

  Lisa Gansky

  Careers, Recipes, Want

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