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• Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Writing, Skills, Two

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• The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Stories

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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Sea, Doe, World

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Mean, Four

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• Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

  David Ogilvy

  Weekend, Night, Agency

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• You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. Three million consumers get married every year. The advertisement which sold a refrigerator to those who got married last year will probably be just as successful with those who'll get married next year. An advertisement is just like a radar sweep, constantly hunting new prospects as they come into the market. Get a good radar and keep it sweeping.

  David Ogilvy

  Moving, Army, Hunting

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• He is the wisest who seeks God.  He is the most successful who has found God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Found, Wisest

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• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  William Safire

  Paper, Causes, Fit

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• Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Games, Play

  "Ray of light: Madonna and her love affair with the lens". Interview with Vince Aletti, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 1999.

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• The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

  Emily Post

  Wise, Party, Gay

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Looks, Investing

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• That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers-the winners-respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.

  Grant Cardone

  Order, People, Doing Nothing

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.132, John Wiley & Sons

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• Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Passion, Exercise, Government

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.405, Random House

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Data, Vegetarian Diet

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Hard Work, People, Want

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, emerald.tufts.edu. 1999.

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• My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Fun, Team, Hard Work

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• You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Fun, Games, Play

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• I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

  Eli Manning

  Thinking, Guy, Littles

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• To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

  Sue Bird

  Play, Coaching, Style

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• My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.

  Lance Berkman

  Baseball, Father, Kids

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• I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  Past, Granted, Position

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• I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

  Roy Oswalt

  Trying, Enough, Aggressive

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• When you are very successful, you fly at the very high altitudes and up there you long for to be applauded by the Stars or by the Moon or by the God Himself, not by the people down on earth! In this case, I advice you this: Be humble; only then you will get the applause of the sublimes; only then, of the noble heights!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Humble, Moon

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• Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Jobs, Years, Law

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