Success Quotes - Page 83

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

I've come across enough successful people now to know that the best in whatever walk of life, they're the ones who just work the hardest. I realized that if I want to be the best and fulfill my potential, I'm going to have to do the same thing. And for those who are lucky enough to be born with a gift and then choose to work the hardest-I mean, that's the combination.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.