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• I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

  Will McDonough

  Nbc, Eight, Years

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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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• In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

  John Locke

  Book, Writing, Target Audience

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

  Scott Adams

  People, Advice, Company

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

  Sam Harris

  Dog, Atheist, Moving

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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 more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

  Robert Anthony

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.167, Morgan James Publishing

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• Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

  Les Brown

  Games, Together, Needs

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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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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Mean, Order

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

  Carlos Santana

  Inspirational, Men, People

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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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• Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

  James Grant

  People, Investing, Agree

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• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  Alan Ball

  Strive, Can Do, Naive

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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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• The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

  Herbert Simon

  Kind, Social, Rigor

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• A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

  Paul Goodman

  Community, Adequate, Revolution

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.

  Chris Evans

  Crazy, Life Changing, Steps

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