Successful Quotes - Page 35

• There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.

  Brian Chippendale

  Fall, People, Support

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things.

  Harry West

  Smart, School, Opportunity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

  Patrick Wolf

  Records, World, Pay

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• Well, there's the water company. I mean, we sell water. And we have water, and it's a very successful, you know, it's a private little water company, and I supply the water for all my places, and it's good. But it's very good.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Water, Littles

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• I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

  Daniel Powter

  Becoming, Made, I Realized

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

  Joe Perry

  Band, Records, Pounds

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the more successful you are, the bigger your hair gets.

  Justin Hawkins

  Thinking, Hair, Bigger

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.

  Guido Palau

  London, Apprenticeship, Catwalk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

  Paul Reubens

  Moving, Way, Separation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Ethnicity, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

  Cornel West

  Party, White, Years

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Wife, Parent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and a couple dozen of the top CEOs.I wanted to know what language they use to be successful, and I wanted to know the attributes that could then be applied to the average individual.

  Frank Luntz

  Couple, Book, Winning

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• You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

  Michael Buble

  Want, Truth Is, Springsteen

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

  Frank Luntz

  Powerful, Influence, Ability

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

  Frank Luntz

  Jobs, People, Done

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

  Frank Luntz

  Jumping, People, Giving

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• Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible.

  Frank Luntz

  Winning, Careers, Ideas

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• FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx used it for almost a decade to communicate the passion of delivering a package. The more passionate you are, the more successful you are.

  Frank Luntz

  Passion, Phrases, Used

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.

  C. J. Wilson

  Fashion, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

  Paula Nelson

  Success, Entrepreneur, Decision

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

  Albert L. Gray

  Success, Lying, Men

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• Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

  Albert L. Gray

  Motivational, Success, People

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