Successful Quotes - Page 14

• The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Cutting, Cost, Contradiction

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.

  Jon Connor

  Believe, Rapper, I Believe

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Racism, People, Black

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.

  Thomas Paine

  Art, Mean, Men

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• I play my life straight - the way I see it. I'm grateful to audiences for watching me and for enjoying what I do - but I'm not one of those who believe that a successful entertainer is made by the public, as is so often said.

  Johnny Carson

  Believe, Grateful, Play

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  Edith Evans

  Artist, Kind, Justified

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.

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• The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

  Ibn Warraq

  Ideas, Slavery, West

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of them successful, some not. There's no one formula, but if I get someone coming through the backdoor who knows that they want to get into the cooking field, they feel this inside-out love for it, this attraction to it, that person is an awful lot easier to work with.

  Paul Rankin

  People, Cooking, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Hard Work, Commitment, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

  Thomas Jones

  Men, People, Wife

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Dad, Business

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• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  Michael Horton

  Thinking, Church Today, Numbers

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.16, Baker Books

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• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Reality, Space

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Iraq, White

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Moving, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1904.

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• Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

  Scott Adams

  People, Advice, Company

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• If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Sports, College

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• I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.

  James Ponsoldt

  Thinking, Giants, Admire

  Source: onlineathens.com

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• Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.

  John Adams

  Success, Passion, Law

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.449

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• Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more credit for it than I deserve. Most men will think I planned it all from the first; but it was not so. I simply took advantage of circumstances as they were presented to me in the providence of God. I feel that His hand led me - let us give Him the glory.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, War, Men

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• I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

  Andre Agassi

  Player, Age, World

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.

  Prince Royce

  Giving, Want, Messages

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• I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.

  Mike Myers

  Crazy, Grateful, Kids

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Work Out, Sometimes, Hoping For The Best

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

  Stephen Chow

  Ideas, Trying, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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