Successful Quotes - Page 26

• I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

  Robin Wright

  Hollywood, Term

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• The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

  Ross Perot

  Life, People, World

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• A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Pay, Able, Economy

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• A successful career has been full of blunders.

  Charles Buxton

  Careers, Blunders, Has Beens

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• I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

  David Zucker

  Time, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  Matthew Bourne

  Journey, Reason, Shows

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• The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

  Gene Fowler

  Writing, Way, Remember

  Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson "How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book", p. 188, 2002.

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Marine, Korea, West

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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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• Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Laughter, Men, Unique

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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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• Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

  Martha Beck

  Fun, Pathways, Diversion

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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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• To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

  Sam Harris

  Confused, Matter, Attention

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

  Robert Heller

  Innovation, Passionate, Fluid

  "Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas" by Robert Heller in his blog "Thinking Managers", June 30, 2009.

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• I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

  Scott Adams

  Bills, Computer, Gates

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• Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

  Scott Walker

  Chief Executives, Chiefs, Executives

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• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  Dan O'Brien

  Communication, Athlete, Trying

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Past

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• I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, Lucky, Enough

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Differences, Essentials, Elements

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• No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

  Laura Esquivel

  Money, Passion, May

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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• If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Directors, Different, Stories

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

  Helen Hayes

  Religious, Art, People

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