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• If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, May, Safe

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• Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Skills, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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• There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Successful, People, Goal

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• If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success or failure in Kosovo is going to be the success or failure of building, first, economic hope, and then trying to heal the damage that's been done.

  James Wolfensohn

  Responsibility, People, Trying

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• The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Trust, Leadership

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• The determination in your heroic effort
  Will permeate your mind and heart
  Even after your success or failure
  Is long forgotten.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Determination, Heart, Long

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• The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

  James E. Grunig

  Communication, Research, Favors

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• How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

  Harold Ramis

  Childhood, Determined, Handle

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

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• Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Believe, Littles, Comedy

  "Why we're still seduced by the romcom' by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Book, Writing, Important

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• The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.

  Stanley Krippner

  Book, Believe, Responsibility

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• The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Over You, Responsible, Feels

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.88, Basic Books

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• You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

  Greg Norman

  Philosophy, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Greg Norman from Jan 16, 2017

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• Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.  It is not synonymous with certain success.  Why should one's attempts always be attended by success?  Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested.  Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself.  Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

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• Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.

  Bob Stoops

  Dear Lord, Soul, Cold

  "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

  Alan Keyes

  Hands, Leader

  Alan Keyes' Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.c-span.org. September 22, 2000.

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Change, Happiness, Appreciation

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• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Success, Congratulations, Expectations

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• A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

  Robin Tunney

  Success, Congratulations, Directors

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• No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

  Alfred Adler

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

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• The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.

  Polybius

  Design, Political, Principles

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Average, Numbers

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “Virginia Woolf, women and writing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

  Bob Proctor

  Self Esteem, Psychology, Causes

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 23, 2014

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• The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

  Thomas Berry

  Success, Historical, Special

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.7, Crown

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