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• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Self, People

  "Rewriting Indian History". Book by François Gautier, p. 158, 2003.

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• What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Differences, Lines, Ingredients

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

  Kim Harrison

  Anger, Differences, People

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• Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

  Shakira

  Children, Differences, Life And Death

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Done, Shooting, Kind

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• I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Way, Art Is

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.135, Penguin

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• Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra minute could've meant everything. You almost have to think of it as a sporting-event type of atmosphere: A football game is sixty minutes long. Think of how many games could be won or lost if the team had one more minute?

  Michael Symon

  Football, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

  Emma Thompson

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

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• Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I'll use it to create my world.

  Taylor Stevens

  Inspirational, Past, Reality

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• Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Lines, Sides

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Parts Of Life, Permanent

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'Failure makes you humble'" by Priya Joshi, www.digitalspy.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

  John Wooden

  Failure, Two, Hardest

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• How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.347, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Procrastination, Differences, Action

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• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Congratulations, Luxury, Elegance

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• It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Differences, Insightful

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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• Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

  Ben Mezrich

  Order, Marketing, Should

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• Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Roots, Causes

  Zhi Gang Sha (2012). “The Power of Soul”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Success and failure are equally disastrous.

  Tennessee Williams

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

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• Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

  Laurence Shames

  Success, Motivation, Failure

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• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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