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• In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Heart, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

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• Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

  Karl Popper

  Law, Belief, Natural

  'Conjectures and Refutations' (1963)

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• It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Independent, Eye

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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• When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Running, Successful

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• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

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• Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Nature, Greatness, Effort

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• I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Facts, Film, Produce

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• Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.

  Stuart Wilde

  Success, Moving, Creativity

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

  Cat Deeley

  Hate, Shopping, Lasts

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• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

  Harvey Mackay

  Work, Lying, Successful

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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• The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

  Paul Keating

  Morning, Party, People

  "Lateline" interview, June 7, 2007.

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• Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, Tides, Violence

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

  Marlon Brando

  Jobs, Successful, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Envy, Emulation, Sin

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• People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

  Rumer Godden

  Successful, Should Have, People

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  Hannah Arendt

  Competition, Luck, Honor

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions

  Douglass North

  Mean, Errors, Keys

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• God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Want, Way

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• I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

  Ai Weiwei

  Successful, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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• I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Successful, Risk, Want

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, Guy, Territory

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• My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, "sock it away," and unsuccessful actors, it's just, "Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it and if you have to do it, keep you've got to keep your instrument in shape. You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.

  Stephen Lang

  Successful, Advice, Get Better

  "IN PLAIN SIGHT Scoop: Stephen Lang Talks Portraying Mary Shannon's Long-Lost Father". Interview with Tiffany Voght, www.thetvaddict.com. April 19, 2012.

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